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Bjnb Allen

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.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$33kEducation$22kHealth$15kCrime & Legal$2kScience & Tech$2kFood & Nutrition$1kPhilanthropy$830Public Safety & Disaster$457Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,590
Median grant
1
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAUREL HOUSE$4,250
ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK DBA AIM ACADEMY$2,590
MISSION KIDS$350
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMERGENCY AID OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150 → 6%Salvation Army of Lehigh County: $200 → 11%Wagner Institute: $150 → 22%James Beard Foundation: $900 → 17%Association for Women in Science: $500 → 14%Rock Mountain MS Center: $300 → 10%EMERGENCY AID OF PA FOUNDATION: $137 → 6%Holy Redeemer: $350 → 7%Jewish Children & Family Service: $2k → 22%ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE: $300 → 6%Jewish Children & Family Service: $1k → 22%Jewish Children & Family Service: $518 → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $250 → 22%Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia: $200 → 22%Living Beyond Breast Canc: $4k → 7%National MS Society: $200 → 22%LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $3k → 7%Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia: $200 → 22%Living Beyond Breast Canc: $2k → 7%National MS Society: $200 → 22%LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $2k → 7%Living Beyond Breast Canc: $1k → 7%LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $253 → 7%University of the Sciences: $500 → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 22%NHS Human Services: $2k → 7%Drexel University: $500 → 22%Mission Kids: $250 → 7%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $450 → 22%MERAKEY FOUNDATION: $250 → 7%Abramson Cancer Center: $300 → 22%MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $125 → 7%Drexel University: $200 → 22%MISSION KIDS: $1k → 7%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $200 → 22%IMAJNZ Foundation: $180 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES: $200 → 22%MISSION KIDS: $350 → 7%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150 → 22%People's Emergency Center Fund: $107 → 22%AIM ACADEMY: $8k → 7%Cancer Support Community: $500 → 22%Academy in Manyunk: $5k → 7%ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK DBA AIM ACADEMY: $3k → 7%Academy in Manyunk: $2k → 7%ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK DBA AIM ACADEMY: $1k → 7%ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK DBA AIM ACADEMY: $1k → 7%Academy in Manyunk: $950 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$71k · 16 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$71k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    LAUREL HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +78%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK
    4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +156%
  • LB
    LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • MU
    MERAKEY USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +55%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $900 · revenue +89%
  • AF
    Association for Women in Science Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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3
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
6
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia

The chamber of commerce for greater philadelphia (the chamber) brings area businesses and civic leaders together to promote growth and create opportunity in our region. our members represent eleven counties, three states, and roughly…

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7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
9
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
10
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
11
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Loss and Bereavement and the most unlike its peers is Association for Women in Science Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr20%76%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
12%
4,579/38,409

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAUREL HOUSE — $29,082 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE+1 more — $200 · Human ServicesACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $15,097 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNKDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYACADEMY IN MANAYUNK DBA AIM ACADEMY — $4,712 · OtherACADEMY IN MANAYUNK D…Jewish Children & Family Service — $3,218 · OtherJewish Children & Fam…THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $900 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUND…University of the Sciences — $700 · OtherAssociation for Women in Science Inc — $500 · OtherCancer Support Community — $500 · Other+22 more — $4,348 · Other+22 moreLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $11,898 · HealthLIVING BEYOND BREAST…MERAKEY USA — $1,500 · HealthMERAKEY USA+2 more — $350 · HealthMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $1,600 · Crime & LegalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $400 · PhilanthropyRACHEL AND TROY FOUNDATION — $300 · Philanthropy+1 more — $15 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300 · International
Human Services$29,282Education$17,097Other$14,878Health$13,748Crime & Legal$1,600Philanthropy$715International$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAUREL HOUSE — $29,082 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $15,097 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER — $11,898 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERAKEY USA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Women in Science Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERAKEY FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAJNZ FOUNDATION — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMERGENCY AID OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION INC — $137 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS — $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…Fred and Bryna Berman…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bjnb Allen funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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