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The Allergan Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2020
316
Grants FY2020
31
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 316 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k49 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k163 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k95 grants · $8.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.7M
$25,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCI FOUNDATION$2,000,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,608,870
NY PRESBYTERIAN$900,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$500,000
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$416,208
DIRECT RELIEF$350,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$333,333
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HOSP$300,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY$250,000
DEEDLY$225,000
ALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
ALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
CARE ABOUT FIBROIDS$180,000
AMERICAN GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION$175,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$175,000
02The need
02

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 (FY20–20, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY: $100k → 10%CARITAS OF WACO: $40k → 16%KANSAS UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS: $35k → 16%OPTOMETRY CARES-THE AOA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CINCINNATI: $90k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $35k → 4%WOMEN AWARE INC: $10k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $30k → 8%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $15k → 7%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING - SAN JOSE: $25k → 8%PROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $15k → 4%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $15k → 12%DEEDLY: $225k → 15%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURG FDN: $100k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $50k → 4%BLINDED VETERANS ASSN: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY HOPE: $25k → 4%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $25k → 14%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $10k → 4%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%NEXTGENFACE: $50k → 17%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%IRVINE ADULT DAY HEALTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $30k → 10%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

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IL
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CA
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CO
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KY
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DC
OK
GA
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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 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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

216 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. 216 of the 304 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)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
205/216
Grantees still filing
164/216
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NY PRESBYTERIAN: $900,000 · OtherNY PRESBYTERIANALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherALLERGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONNEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HOSP: $300,000 · Other+96 more: $4,853,960 · Other+96 moreMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,608,870 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI…NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $500,000 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNE…THE JED FOUNDATION: $333,333 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATIONAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY: $250,000 · Health+48 more: $2,766,085 · Health+48 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $2,254,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…National Merit Scholarship Corporation: $416,208 · EducationNational Merit Schol…+13 more: $490,000 · Education+13 moreDEEDLY INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesA LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $90,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesNEXTGEN FACE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACO: $40,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesKansas University Physicians Inc: $35,000 · Human Services+8 more: $220,000 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $110,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISHNJ INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionDIRECT RELIEF: $400,100 · InternationalRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $27,280 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH ADVANCEMENT INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMental Health Coalition Inc: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY: $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,453,960Health$5,458,288Education$3,160,208Human Services$970,000Food & Nutrition$635,000International$477,380Philanthropy$445,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $2,254,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,608,870 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $416,208 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $400,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $333,333 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDEEDLY INC: $225,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetAMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY: $175,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $165,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMental Health Coalition Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNAMI National: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMission Plasticos: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $90,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC: $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY: $70,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

AbbVie FoundationOrange County Communi…The Provident Bank Fo…O L Halsell FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…Sisters of St Joseph …Investors Foundation …Edwards Lifesciences …Hoag Memorial Hospita…Glen and Dorothy Stil…Community Foundation …Oneoc
AbbVie FoundationIL39.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oneoc

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

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no gov · 280%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Women Aware Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: 15% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Monmouth County Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc: 5% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Children On the Green Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Orlando Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Allergan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Allergan Foundation 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 304 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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