· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 INC4× · 2017–2021 · $84k · revenue +21%- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +45%
- MUMarquette University3× · 2017–2021 · $57k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SAST ANDREWS LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TIThe Island School Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +66%
- ICINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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,…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Linda & Barry Allen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.