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Linda & Barry Allen Foundation at a glance

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Linda & Barry 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.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$285kHuman Services$138kHealth$114kYouth Development$97kReligion$82kEnvironment$43kPhilanthropy$26kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND SCHOOL$26,300
COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOCA GRANDE$25,900
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION$25,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
WE CARE FUND$10,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN CENTER$6,200
ST ANDREwS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$5,000
MADISON JEFFERSON 4 H$4,185
WESTERN LAND ALLIANCE$2,500
PATHWAYS$2,500
MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION$2,200
GICIA$2,000
BOCA GRANDE PRE SCHOOL$1,500
JF LIBRARY$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROS & HORSES: $10k → 10%ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE: $500 → 10%CAUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 3%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 9%CAUSE FOUNDATION: $500 → 3%HEROS & HORSES: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%HEROES & HORSES: $10k → 10%HEROES & HORSES: $10k → 10%HEROES & HORSES: $10k → 10%HEROES & HORSES: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $1k → 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

ME
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
NM
SC
DC
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$642k · 49 repeat orgs$251k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
54

Total granted

$642k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $84k · revenue +21%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +45%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    3× · 2017–2021 · $57k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ANDREWS LEGACY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TI
    The Island School Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +66%
  • MC
    MILWAUKEE COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
Marine Corps Association

The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…

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12
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc; the most unlike its peers is Madison Valley Ranchlands Group. 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

64 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. 64 of the 114 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CHRISTOPHER EPISCOPAL CHURCH - CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherST CHRISTOPHER EPISCOPAL CHURCH - CAPITAL…COMMUNITY CENTER OF BOCA GRANDE: $25,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY CENTER OF BOCA GRANDEMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARYST ANDREWS LEGACY FUND: $25,000 · OtherST ANDREWS LEGACY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+66 more: $189,455 · Other+66 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $82,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WI…Marquette University: $57,120 · EducationMarquette UniversityTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $26,300 · EducationTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INCThe Island School Foundation Inc: $12,500 · EducationThe Island School Foundat…+9 more: $25,750 · Education+9 moreHEROES AND HORSES INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HO…FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BO…THE CAUSE FOUNDATION: $25,500 · Human ServicesTHE CAUSE FOU…+3 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $83,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…+2 more: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $41,000 · HealthMADISON VA…BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $27,000 · HealthBOCA GRAND…PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $13,700 · HealthPENFIELD C…+3 more: $3,700 · HealthBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $27,225 · PhilanthropyWe Care Fund Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $8,800 · EnvironmentWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $5,500 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $4,000 · EnvironmentBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $3,800 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $2,500 · EnvironmentGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $2,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA LAND RELIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Environment+3 more: $3,000 · Environment
Other$330,355Education$203,670Human Services$106,500Youth Development$92,500Health$85,400Philanthropy$38,225Environment$36,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $83,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $82,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $57,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $51,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $27,225 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $26,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAUSE FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $13,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Island School Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSt Andrews Episcopal Church Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $8,800 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $3,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDgen Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA LAND RELIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENNIS RODEO INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJACK CREEK PRESERVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSojourn Chaplaincy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1,000 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds We Care Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Andrews Episcopal Church Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗

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.

Gulf Coast Community …Edwardson Family Foun…Carbonari Family Foun…Ia Lenoir Charitable …The William Stamps Fa…Baird Foundation IncThe Shore Lane Family…Sweet Peas FoundationThe Gemini FoundationThe George and Carol …The Joanne E Masin Fo…Howe Family Foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Edwardson Family Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · Sweet Peas Foundation · The Gemini Foundation · The George and Carol Milne Foundation · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Howe Family 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 Linda & Barry Allen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda & Barry Allen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    13get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 114 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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