North Carolina · Private foundation
Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $270,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.1M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $1.1M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $823k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $830k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $650,000 | 5 | 0% |
| ArtsPlus | $600,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Knothole Foundation Knothole Foundation | $529,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Discovery Place Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Paramount Institute of Cosmetic Arts Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 90% |
| Right Moves for Youth Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pirates Charities | $150,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Lifespan Inc | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Charlotte Knights Charities Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 39% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($511k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Hooptee Charities Inc · Womens Impact Fund · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community
How this is measured
Compare Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation with peer funders
About Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation
- How much does Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation give?
- Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,070,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte ($650k), ArtsPlus ($600k), Knothole Foundation Knothole Foundation ($529k).
- Does Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.
- Where is Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation based?
- Bill and Sharon Allen Family Foundation is based in NC.
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