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James C Allen Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$5,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NW$30,000
MOUNTAIN PRIDE$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
ONE FOR ISRAEL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE LIVING DESERT$10,000
COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
KINGDOM BUILDING MINISTRIES$6,000
IRONMAN FOUNDATION$5,200
VAIL VALLEY SALVATION ARMY$5,200
VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM$5,199
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIO$5,100
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
STATEWIDE POVERTY ACTION NETWORK$2,500
THE RACIAL DISPARITY PROJECT$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VILLAGE OF HOPE: $5k → 9%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $3k → 7%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $1k → 7%Vail Valley Charitable Fund: $510 → 7%Vail Valley Charitable Fund: $500 → 7%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$564k · 26 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
14

Total granted

$564k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-3%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KB
    Kingdom Building Ministries
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +139%
  • MP
    MOUNTAIN PRIDE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • VR
    VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -72%
  • BV
    BRAVO VAIL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -78%
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
Vail Health Services

Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.

Health
2
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
3
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
4
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
5
Vvmc Diversified Services

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
6
Epicpromise Employee Foundation

The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.

Philanthropy
7
Eagle River Valley Childcare

Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.

Human Services
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation

Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…

Health
11
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
12
Venture Free Foundation

Outdoor Adventure and Environmental Leadership Programs

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mountain Pride. 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

28 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. 28 of the 48 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)
28/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $125,500 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWESTEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO: $103,000 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIOKingdom Building Ministries: $40,300 · OtherKingdom Building MinistriesCORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIO: $32,700 · OtherCORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIOVAIL VALLEY SALVATION ARMY: $23,261 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $22,225 · OtherSTATEWIDE POVERTY ACTION NETWORK: $20,125 · OtherDOWNTOWN EMERGENCY CENTER: $20,030 · Other+22 more: $122,880 · Other+22 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $46,100 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $38,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SER…MOUNTAIN PRIDE: $15,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN PRIDEPM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $1,600 · HealthGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $80,000 · EducationGUARDIAN SCHO…COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO MESA…VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $14,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $9,240 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF HOPE: $4,625 · Human ServicesMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $1,010 · Human ServicesLIVING DESERT THE: $13,000 · EnvironmentTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,845 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,100 · Philanthropy
Other$510,021Health$105,700Education$90,000Community Improvement$31,000Human Services$18,875Environment$13,000Philanthropy$11,145

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 budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $125,500 over 5y, 0.5% of 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 budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,845 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 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
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 SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Kingdom Building Ministries ↗
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN PRIDE ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds One For Israel ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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 Founda…Barbara Allen Charita…The Ronald Davis Fami…Frechette Family Foun…Rocky Mountain Health…Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh…Morgan Stanley Global…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Raymond James Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report 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

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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.

    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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