· Private foundation
Shirley & David Allen 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIWANIS CLUB OF LINDSAY | $26,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,250 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $1,800 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $1,650 |
| DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVIC | $1,650 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $1,350 |
| COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,300 |
| AAUW | $1,250 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $1,250 |
| CATCHING THE DREAM | $1,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $1,000 |
| SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES | $1,000 |
| UA FOUNDATION-ALLEN FAMILY LIB FUND | $1,000 |
| VISHAL HIMALAYA 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, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
83 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- LTLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +122%
- TTREEHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +172%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- ENEEG NEURO BRIAN OTHMER FDNone grant, 2019 · $2k
- MCMILLIONAIRE CLUB CHARITYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- YFYOSEMITE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Dreams for Orphans. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 103 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 LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds VISHAL HIMALAYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds DREAMS FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BRIAN OTHMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
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: Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Real Progress Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Beeks Family Legacy Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp 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 Shirley & David 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 or a single department — 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.
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