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The Allen Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Allen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.0MHuman Services$145kInternational$78kEducation$74kHealth$22kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$9kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$344k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY19–19, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CINCINNATI: $10k → 16%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $50k → 12%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

NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204k · 5 repeat orgs$644k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$204k
$629k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+3%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesReligionInternationalCrime & LegalSocial ScienceOther
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

  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +90%
  • IC
    INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +7%
  • DT
    DENVER TENNIS PARK
    3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • FD
    FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • CP
    CONTRIBUTIONS PAID TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (PER ATTACHED DETAIL)
    one grant, 2017 · $245k
  • FC
    FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -5%
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
Denver Scholarship Foundation

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…

Education
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Dream Foundation

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…

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4
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
8
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
9
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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10
University of Denver

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…

Education
11
Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

Philanthropy
12
Aia Colorado

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,250,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $250,000 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDCONTRIBUTIONS PAID TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (PER ATTACHED DETAIL): $245,050 · OtherCONTRIBUTIONS PAID TO OTHER CHARI…HOPE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $55,000 · OtherHOPE CENTER FOR WOMEN INCINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $53,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC+19 more: $92,536 · Other+19 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $250,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHI…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 · InternationalFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $50,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $10,000 · Human ServicesDENVER TENNIS PARK: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsDENVER MOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTEAM SUMMIT: $600 · Recreation & SportsCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Social Science
Community Improvement$1,250,000Other$695,586Philanthropy$250,000International$77,500Human Services$60,000Recreation & Sports$9,100Social Science$5,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $53,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREVEL: $11,616 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER TENNIS PARK: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREALNESS PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEAM SUMMIT: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCFA SOCIETY OF COLORADO: $80 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…The Colorado Health F…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 32 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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