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James C Allen Charitable Foundation

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.

$130k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations James C Allen Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving15$99k27%
FY202316$195k19%
FY202225$101k20%
FY202123$128k39%
FY202023$109kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$210kCivil Rights$166kEducation$91kReligion$62kHuman Services$43kPublic Benefit$33kCommunity Improvement$31kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($302k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James C Allen Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGuardian Scholars Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $46,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKingdom Building Ministries: $40,300 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVail Health Services Foundation: $38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMountain Pride: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Working World Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Desert The: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Mesa University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVail Religious Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOne For Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVail Veterans Foundation Inc: $9,240 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ironman Foundation Inc: $5,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPm Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVillage of Hope: $4,625 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMy Future Pathways Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope Haven Charitable Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $2,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFree Wheelchair Mission: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $1,010 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarting Hearts: $100 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 24.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Barbara Allen Charitable Foundation · The Ronald Davis Family Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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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How do I get to James C Allen Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James C Allen Charitable 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.

About James C Allen Charitable Foundation

How much does James C Allen Charitable Foundation give?
James C Allen Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $129,799 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does James C Allen Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Civil Rights (21%), Education (12%).
Who are James C Allen Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Guardian Scholars Inc ($80k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($46k), Kingdom Building Ministries ($40k).
Does James C Allen Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James C Allen Charitable 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 James C Allen Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Barbara Allen Charitable Foundation, The Ronald Davis Family Foundation.
Where is James C Allen Charitable Foundation based?
James C Allen Charitable Foundation is based in CO.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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