Ohio · Private foundation
Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $98k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $93k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $63k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $84k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $32,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Fire Museum | $25,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Ohio Valley Voices | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $23,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Nature Center | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsem Horsemanship | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Art Academy of Cincinnati | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Springer School and Center | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Womans Art Club of Cincinnati | $13,000 | 5 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Agnes Nordloh Charitable Trust · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005
How this is measured
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About Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation
- How much does Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation give?
- Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $97,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (18%), Education (16%).
- Who are Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cincinnati Museum Association ($33k), Cincinnati Fire Museum ($25k), Ohio Valley Voices ($25k).
- Does Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust.
- Where is Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation based?
- Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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