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The Allen & Company Foundation Inc

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$4.9MEducation$1.0MSocial Science$500kCrime & Legal$200kYouth Development$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kPhilanthropy$85kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$177k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$500,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$500,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$500,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$100,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$100,000
NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BOYS AND MEN$75,000
UPSTREAM USA INC$25,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$25,000
The Door A Center Of Alternatives Inc$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
HETERODOX ACADEMY$25,000
NFX$25,000
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$12,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) 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.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $5k → 14%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

NH
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 12 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthSocial ScienceArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +42%
  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +89%
  • HA
    HETERODOX ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • MS
    Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Cen
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • SC
    STANFORD CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY AND
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
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
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.

Health
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
11
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
12
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC: $1,750,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONMemorial SloanKettering Cancer Cen: $250,000 · OtherMemorial SloanKettering Cancer CenHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $125,000 · Other+11 more: $290,000 · Other+11 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,950,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 · Health+3 more: $87,500 · HealthTrustees of Dartmouth College: $500,000 · EducationTrustees of Dar…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY…HETERODOX ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationHETERODOX ACADE…VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $50,000 · EducationTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $325,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BOYS AND MEN: $175,000 · Social ScienceNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOACHARTORG: $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,165,000Health$2,137,500Education$975,000Social Science$500,000Crime & Legal$300,000Arts & Culture$30,000Youth Development$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,950,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BOYS AND MEN: $175,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $150,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNFX: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONCORD COALITION CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…T Rowe Price Program …National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Allen & Company Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen & Company Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Allen & Company Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Allen & Company Foundation Inc 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 31 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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