· Private foundation
Don Allen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Don Allen Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Don Allen Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $125k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN | $75,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE | $25,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| ADMIRE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| HIGHER PRAISE AND WORSHIP CTR | $2,500 |
| SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $1,500 |
| DANCE EXPLOSION KIDS FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KRISTI HOUSE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +46%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +30%
- HPHIGHER PRAISE & WORSHIP CTR INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $35k
- ICINTL CENTER FOR TROPICAL BOTANYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER PRAISE & WORSHIP CTR INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMIRE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALIVE ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE DADE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION INC ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don Allen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don Allen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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