· Private foundation
The Allyn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $271k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $14,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $8,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $8,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $6,000 |
| AMERICARES | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +9%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +26%
- WHWellness House8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PCPILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $5k
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is Hidden Acres Safe Haven. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
99 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. 99 of the 140 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 SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Stuhley Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Allyn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston 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.
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