· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of The Allen & Company Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $500,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $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 |
| The Door A Center Of Alternatives Inc | $25,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA INC | $25,000 |
| NFX | $25,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +42% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- NYNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +42%
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +89%
- HAHETERODOX ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $500k
- MSMemorial SloanKettering Cancer Cenone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SCSTANFORD CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY ANDone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.
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.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BOYS AND MEN ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds COACHARTORG ↗
- Who funds THE CONCORD COALITION CORP ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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: 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
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 The Allen & Company Foundation Inc 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.
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
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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