Florida · Private foundation
The Allen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $344k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Allen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $22k | 82% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $36k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $254k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $28k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $41k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $172k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americares Foundation Inc | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Center for Women Inc | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc | $53,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Joseph Academy | $21,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Revel | $11,616 | 2 | 0% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Light of the World Clinic Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Tennis Park | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Common Sense Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americares Foundation Inc | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Center for Women Inc | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc | $53,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Joseph Academy | $21,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Revel | $11,616 | 2 | 0% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Light of the World Clinic Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Tennis Park | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Common Sense Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Mountain Parks Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Poor Clare Missionary Sisters Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Realness Project | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Team Summit | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Growing Home Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cfa Society of Colorado | $80 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($541k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Allen Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Allen Foundation Inc
- How much does The Allen Foundation Inc give?
- The Allen Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $22,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Allen Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Human Services (6%), International (3%).
- Who are The Allen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americares Foundation Inc ($78k), Hope Center for Women Inc ($55k), Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc ($53k).
- Does The Allen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Allen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Allen Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
- Where is The Allen Foundation Inc based?
- The Allen Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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