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Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$95k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$5k0%
FY20247$52k29%
FY20234$47k0%
FY202214$179k14%
FY202123$123k61%
FY202014$98kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$119kHuman Services$86kArts & Culture$85kEducation$82kAnimals$59kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClean Water Fund: $94,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPrudence Crandall Center Inc: $85,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Connecticut Rivers Council Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHartford Stage Company Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southwest New England Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFarm Sanctuary Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDreamchaser Pmu Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Inc: $7,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSpeak Up for Horses: $6,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetConnecticut Humane Society: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Conservation Caucus Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Greyhound Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceana Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe White Coat Waste Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterkeeper Alliance Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Susan and Ford Schumann FoundationAZ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Bradford Family Foundation · The John a Rodger Jr Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation

How much does Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation give?
Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Clean Water Fund ($95k), Prudence Crandall Center Inc ($86k), Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc ($50k).
Does Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Don and Marilyn Allan 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 Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
Where is Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation based?
Don and Marilyn Allan Family Foundation is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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