Georgia · Private foundation
The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation
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.
- $740k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 20 | $673k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $543k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $548k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $538k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $594k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $525k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $473k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodward Academy Inc | $217,500 | 7 | 0% |
| John Cheatham Medical Foundation Inc (Frmr T Harvey Mathis Eye Foundation) | $165,000 | 5 | 67% |
| Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Emory & Henry University | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Blue Ridge Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Delta Gamma Foundation | $58,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Verizon Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
How this is measured
Compare The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation with peer funders
About The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation
- How much does The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation give?
- The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $740,034 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (25%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Woodward Academy Inc ($218k), John Cheatham Medical Foundation Inc (Frmr T Harvey Mathis Eye Foundation) ($165k), Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ($160k).
- Does The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation based?
- The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation is based in GA.
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