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Herbert Allen 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.

$407k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$5.2MHealth$1.8MEducation$455kCivil Rights$340kPhilanthropy$212kYouth Development$195kFood & Nutrition$167kHuman Services$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $240k
$17,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$240,000
VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES$25,000
CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER$20,000
LEWIN FUND TO FIGHT WOMENS CANCERS$17,000
CITY HARVEST$17,000
THE FRESH AIR FUND$17,000
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND$17,000
CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY$15,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$15,000
THE STATION FOUNDATION$12,500
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$6,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORP$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $250k → 7%Southampton Hospital Foundation: $225k → 7%Feeding Westchester: $25k → 9%PIER55 INC: $5.0M → 17%ALL HALLOWS FOUNDATION: $25k → 28%AUGUSTA MINI THEATRE: $25k → 18%CITY HARVEST: $17k → 17%ALL HALLOWS FOUNDATION: $25k → 28%CITY HARVEST: $17k → 17%CITY HARVEST: $17k → 17%CITY HARVEST: $17k → 17%City Harvest: $17k → 17%CITY HARVEST: $17k → 17%Rosary Hill Home: $25k → 9%THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $17k → 17%THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $17k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $240k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $240k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $240k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $240k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $240k → 17%Community Funds ECAP: $100k → 17%New York Presbyterian Fund Inc: $86k → 17%New York Presbyterian Fund Inc: $86k → 17%New York Presbyterian Fund Inc: $68k → 17%CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER: $20k → 17%CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER: $20k → 17%CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER: $20k → 17%Cornelia Connelly Center: $20k → 17%CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER: $20k → 17%CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER: $20k → 17%BROOME STREET ACADEMY: $40k → 17%BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH: $40k → 17%Broome Street Academy Charter High: $40k → 17%BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH: $40k → 17%Ventoux Partnership Network Inc: $50k → 17%BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH: $40k → 17%The Fresh Air Fund: $17k → 17%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $25k → 17%THE DOOR A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES: $36k → 17%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $25k → 17%The Door A Center for Alternatives: $36k → 17%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $25k → 17%THE DOOR A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES: $36k → 17%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $25k → 17%THE DOOR A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES: $36k → 17%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $25k → 17%THE DOOR A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES: $36k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
LA
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 17 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$2.9M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +8%
  • TD
    THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +36%
  • VP
    VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PI
    PIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -39%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +74%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
New York Dental Affiliates Pc

Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is PIER55 Inc D/B/a Little Island. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND: $5,000,000 · Recreation & SportsPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND+3 more: $158,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,440,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN F…THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITA…THE LEWIN FUND TO FIGHT WOMEN'S CANCERS: $102,000 · HealthTHE LEWIN FUND TO FIGHT…+3 more: $37,500 · HealthASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherASIAN AMERIC…THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $180,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A…CORNELIA CONNELY CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $120,000 · OtherCORNELIA CON…Community Funds ECAP: $100,000 · OtherCommunity Fu…CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR A…CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR T…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $65,000 · OtherFEEDING WEST…+3 more: $60,000 · Other+3 moreBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $175,000 · EducationALL HALLOWS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $102,000 · PhilanthropyTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCITY HARVEST INC: $102,000 · Food & NutritionAugusta Mini Theatre Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLanto Griffin Foundation: $5,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$5,158,000Health$1,804,500Other$955,000Education$435,000Philanthropy$112,000Food & Nutrition$102,000Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND: $5,000,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,440,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $102,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEWIN FUND TO FIGHT WOMEN'S CANCERS: $102,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $102,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $102,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL HALLOWS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAugusta Mini Theatre Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLanto Griffin Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PIER55 INC D/B/A LITTLE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE LEWIN FUND TO FIGHT WOMEN'S CANCERS ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL HALLOWS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Augusta Mini Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Lanto Griffin Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert Allen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Allen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Herbert Allen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herbert Allen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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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