· Private foundation
Raymond J Allen and Sally J Allen Charities Ltd
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO YACHT CLUB | $350 |
| LYRIC OPERA | $275 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $114 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFirst United Methodist Church5× · 2019–2024 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2021 · $8k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY2× · 2019–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- ESELMHURST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +24%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagoone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -1%
- FCFRANKLIN CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The auditorium theatre of roosevelt university ("the auditorium"), an illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to chicago and to the…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high-quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To excite, engage, and transform diverse audiences with the beauty and power of music.
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Advancing, promoting and preserving the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery as well as the skills and professionalism of aaoms members to ensure patient access to safe and effective care.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
To be chicagos premier resources for connecting, developing, and growing best-in-class leaders to provide established and emerging leaders opportunities to develop and nurture meaningful relationships, participate in innovative…
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Raymond J Allen and Sally J Allen Charities Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond J Allen and Sally J Allen Charities Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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