· 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.
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 $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $467k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPIRITUAL STUDIES INSTITUTECHURCH OF SPIRITUAL STUDIES | $150,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ATLANTA | $125,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| CHI PHI EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $67,200 |
| JOHN CHEATHAM MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WOODWARD ACADEMY | $42,500 |
| ATLANTA CLASSICAL ACADEMY (NORTHSIDE EDUCATION INC) | $33,334 |
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC | $27,000 |
| ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 29 (VETERAN'S MEMORIAL 5K) | $25,000 |
| BOOTS ON THE GROUND | $25,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $25,000 |
| INTROSHIPS PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH & INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS CAMPUS | $10,000 |
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, $50k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k 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
- WAWOODWARD ACADEMY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $218k · revenue +50%
- AHAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +40%
- EHEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- RBROTARY BOYS & GIRLS STYLE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIONone grant, 2023 · $40k
- TWThe Westminster Schools Incone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +22%
- EAEMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE - HORSE RETIREMENT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Aarf is a nonprofit organization serving the winston-salem area dedicated to finding loving homes for dogs and cats through rescue, foster care, veterinary services, adoption, and education.
Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary. 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 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 CHI PHI EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN CHEATHAM MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC (FRMR T HARVEY MATHIS EYE FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds INTROSHIPS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds LAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE MARLEY PROJECT IN ↗
- Who funds AMC SUPPORT 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.
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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 Calvin and Marisa Allen Foundation 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% 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.