· Private foundation
The Allen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| REVEL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,780 |
| WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS ARCHIVES COLLABOR | $2,500 |
| DENVER TENNIS PARK | $2,500 |
| DENVER MOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE KEMPE CENTER | $1,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| LEUKEMIA SOCIETY | $100 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF COLORADO | $80 |
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 (FY19–19, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +90%- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC2× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +7%
- DTDENVER TENNIS PARK3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FDFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2023 · $250k
- CPCONTRIBUTIONS PAID TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (PER ATTACHED DETAIL)one grant, 2017 · $245k
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADOone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -5%
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.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Hope Center for Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds REVEL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Light of the World Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER TENNIS PARK ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DENVER MOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds REALNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEAM SUMMIT ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CFA SOCIETY OF COLORADO ↗
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: 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
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 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.