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The Allen Family 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.

$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$1.2MInternational$554kYouth Development$26kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$20kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$552k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RELEVATE GROUP INC$110,000
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$100,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$50,000
HELP ONE NOW$25,000
EVERY MONDAY MATTERS$5,000
BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%A SEAT AT THE TABLE: $1k → 21%THE RED ROAD: $15k → 4%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $10k → 7%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%THE RED ROAD: $10k → 4%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5k → 7%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5k → 7%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $37k → 8%BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $10k → 11%BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $5k → 11%BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $5k → 11%BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $5k → 11%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

WA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+20%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Living Water International
    5× · 2019–2024 · $437k · revenue +15%
  • TR
    THE RELEVATE GROUP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $360k · revenue +59%
  • TR
    The Red Road Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RELATIVE GROUP INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • LW
    LIVING WORD CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • M
    MISSION318
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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4
Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
5
World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

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6
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
7
Wam Inc Dba Witness As Ministry

Wam is a faith based charity striving to meet the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of families in the middle east region impacted by the lebanese, syrian and iraqi crisis where we deliver emergency aid to survivors of war and…

International
8
Twelve21 Global Inc

We engage the far-off, forgotten, abandoned people-the least of these-by building genuine trust through relationships and sharing Christs gospel of grace and great hope. We come alongside and support local churches that disciple their…

Religion
9
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
10
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
11
River House Global Inc

River House Global is a global platform for transformation, creating Heaven on Earth realities, by collaborating with, equipping, & championing leaders around the world.

Religion
12
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is The Red Road 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CROSSINGS ST LOUIS: $350,000 · OtherTHE CROSSINGS ST LOUISYOUTH FOR CHRIST: $345,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRISTTHE RELATIVE GROUP INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE RELATIVE GROUP INC+2 more: $20,000 · OtherLiving Water International: $437,000 · Human ServicesLiving Water InternationalThe Red Road Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesBURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $360,000 · ReligionTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionHELP ONE NOW: $67,500 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $24,000 · InternationalMISSION318: $5,000 · InternationalEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$765,000Human Services$508,000Religion$370,000International$121,500Youth Development$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiving Water International: $437,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $360,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHELP ONE NOW: $67,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Red Road Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT: $25,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetArrabon Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION318: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetA SEAT AT THE TABLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Living Water International ↗
  • Who funds THE RELEVATE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds HELP ONE NOW ↗
  • Who funds EVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds The Red Road Inc ↗
  • Who funds BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds Arrabon Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSION318 ↗
  • Who funds A SEAT AT THE TABLE ↗

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.

Servant FoundationKS14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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