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The Allen Family 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$130k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.4MHealth$1.4MInternational$525kEnvironment$320kArts & Culture$248kScience & Tech$203kReligion$186kHuman Services$184kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $620k
$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POLG FOUNDATION INC$130,000
PILGRIM AFRICA$120,000
BLAIR ACADEMY$100,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA$65,000
ISLESBORO ISLANDS TRUST$55,000
KIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND$50,000
NEW YORK SUN WORKS$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
SCHIZOPHRENIA & PSYCHOSIS ACTION ALLIANCE$35,000
BERKSHIRE SCHOOL$35,000
THE WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE INC$20,000
KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION INC$20,000
ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES$20,000
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$20,000
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 (FY21–25, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $30k → 20%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $55k → 13%Lifecamp: $60k → 4%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $20k → 9%Pripet Riding Program: $3k → 11%Metropolitan Ministries: $35k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 13%LIFECAMP: $11k → 4%LIFECAMP: $10k → 4%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%LIFECAMP: $10k → 4%Metropolitan Ministries: $5k → 13%Lifecamp: $10k → 4%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

ME
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
LA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Allen Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Allen Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 51 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
25

Total granted

$4.9M
$574k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TB
    THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $289k · revenue +21%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +228%
  • II
    Islesboro Islands Trust
    3× · 2023–2025 · $197k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +3%
  • XU
    Xavier University of Louisiana Institutional Advancement
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • BS
    BROOKS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +42%
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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
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
5
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
6
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
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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10
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Hills Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Pripet Riding Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $830,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANATHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $289,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INCHARLEM ACADEMY: $117,500 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYBLAIR ACADEMY: $115,000 · EducationBLAIR ACADEMYTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $72,500 · EducationTHE WILBERFORCE SCHOOL INC: $65,000 · Education+14 more: $281,000 · Education+14 moreThe Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $277,000 · OtherThe Society of Memorial Sloan Ke…DREXEL FOUNDER'S FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $242,500 · OtherDREXEL FOUNDER'S FAMILY SCHOLARS…ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $115,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHMane Stream Inc: $76,000 · OtherXavier University of Louisiana Institutional Advancement: $70,000 · OtherJesuit High School: $70,000 · OtherPRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $70,000 · Other+36 more: $704,000 · Other+36 moreAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $250,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDA…THE POLG FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · HealthTHE POLG FOUNDA…THE JED FOUNDATION: $105,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDAT…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthFoundation for …JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH …Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America: $35,000 · Health+5 more: $66,000 · Health+5 morePilgrim Africa: $485,000 · InternationalPilgrim Af…Malaria Partners International: $25,000 · InternationalIslesboro Islands Trust: $197,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND: $167,500 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $45,000 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CAMP INC: $101,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDHAM: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesKieve Wavus Education Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC: $202,500 · Science & Tech
Education$1,870,000Other$1,624,500Health$768,500International$510,000Philanthropy$409,500Human Services$298,500Science & Tech$202,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $830,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPilgrim Africa: $485,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $289,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC: $202,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetIslesboro Islands Trust: $197,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetKIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND: $167,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $117,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC: $101,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $76,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $72,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WILBERFORCE SCHOOL INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLARENCE DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetST LUKES VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAMINGTON CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetMalaria Partners International: $25,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHOPEWILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPrinceton Youth Ballet Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC IN THE SOMERSET HILLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Clarence & Anne Dillo…Louis G Piancone Char…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Robert V Rasmussen Fo…The Risor FoundationThe Fournier Family F…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…Chubb Charitable Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Bny Mellon Charitable…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke TrustNY39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · Louis G Piancone Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Robert V Rasmussen Foundation · The Risor Foundation · The Fournier Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School: 4% of income from government
  • Life Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Zoo Miami Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Allen Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Allen Family 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 87 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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