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The Harold & Ruth Allen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE HAROLD & RUTH ALLEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
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States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CEA Scholarship Fund: $250 → 11%Alert Fire Co: $350 → 9%THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $2k → 6%NY Empire State College: $5k → 7%USTA Foundation: $3k → 9%NY Family Services: $250 → 11%N Y J T L: $1k → 13%NYS Trooper Foundation: $3k → 14%Bronx Tails Cat Rescue: $1k → 17%Russian American Officers Assoc: $500 → 20%BRONX TAILS CAT RESCUE: $3k → 28%Hadassah: $250 → 11%POLICE OFFICERS ASSISTANCE TRUST: $1k → 15%Highway III Club: $2k → 19%St Jude Church: $250 → 9%USIC: $2k → 16%W S W FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%Red Bank Police Reserve: $5k → 6%RJK Foundation: $5k → 6%INTL ASSOC OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $495 → 9%Bar Harbor Police Legacy Fdtn: $3k → 11%Alert Fire Co: $250 → 9%THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $2k → 6%Signal 30: $2k → 14%Centurion Foundation: $20k → 17%BRONX TAILS CAT RESCUE: $1k → 28%POAT: $755 → 15%USIC: $2k → 16%PAMS PALS-AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 15%Shore Regional Girls Tennis Assoc: $286 → 6%NCMPC: $900 → 6%Long Island Alliance Church: $500 → 7%PBA of NYS: $750 → 14%Centurion Foundation: $1k → 17%POAT: $600 → 15%TROOPER MEMORIAL FUND: $3k → 7%Global Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility: $1k → 17%Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery: $800 → 7%HADASSAH: $450 → 17%Florida Hwy Patrol: $1k → 15%Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery: $700 → 7%NASSAU COUNTY POLICE RESERVES ASSOC: $3k → 6%Silver Shields Fdtn: $5k → 17%ASSOCIAZONE NAZIONALE CARABINI: $1k → 15%DOCTORS CHARTER SCHOOL OF MIAMI SHORES: $650 → 15%NASSAU COUNTY POLICE RESERVES ASSOC: $1k → 6%DOCTORS CHARTER SCHOOL OF MIAMI SHORES: $465 → 15%NASSAU COUNTY POLICE RESERVES ASSOC: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47k · 20 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$47k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+52%

Still filing today

20%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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AnimalsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    Centurion Foundation Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $21k · revenue +7%
  • RA
    RUSSIAN AMERICAN OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $700 · revenue +19%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $600 · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RB
    Red Bank Police Reserve
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • RF
    RJK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +51%
  • NE
    NY Empire State College
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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National Association of Police Organizations Inc

The national association of police organizations (napo) was established to unite all law enforcement organizations within the united states in order to promote and maintain federal legislation and policies most beneficial to law…

2
Florida Police Chiefs Association Inc

Fpca's mission is to continuously enhance law enforcement by providing a unified voice for police chiefs statewide and nationally, serving as the public face of law enforcement executive leadership, and providing a forum for executive…

3
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
4
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
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Unite Nationwide for Cops Under Fire Foundation Aka Uncuff the Innocent
Crime & Legal
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American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
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Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
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Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
Detective Wenjian Liu Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission embodies the character and values of detective wenjian liu, a new york police department detective who was shot and killed in the line of duty in a marked patrol car in december 2014. the foundation strives to…

Animals
11
Cop Shot Inc

The purpose of cop shot is to offer a standing reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone shooting a new york city police officer.to determine that an individual of organization qualifies to receive…

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Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usta Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Rjk Foundation. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NASSAU COUNTY POLICE RESERVES ASSOC — $5,075 · OtherNASSAU COUNTY POLICE RESERVES ASSOCIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRed Bank Police Reserve — $5,000 · OtherRed Bank Police ReserveRJK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherRJK FOUNDATIONNY Empire State College — $5,000 · OtherNY Empire State CollegeBronx Tails Cat Rescue — $4,500 · OtherBronx Tails Cat RescueUSIC — $3,375 · OtherTHE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $3,000 · OtherNYS Trooper Foundation — $2,500 · OtherPAMS PALS-AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $2,500 · OtherBar Harbor Police Legacy Fdtn — $2,500 · Other+31 more — $21,394 · Other+31 moreCenturion Foundation Inc — $21,000 · PhilanthropyCenturion Foundation IncSOUTH FLORIDA CRIME COMMISSION INC — $2,500 · Crime & LegalPOLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST — $1,000 · Crime & LegalRUSSIAN AMERICAN OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $700 · Crime & LegalUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsTROOPERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $600 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE INC — $200 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife — $75 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $75 · AnimalsAlley Cat Allies Inc — $50 · AnimalsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $100 · Environment
Other$64,844Philanthropy$21,000Crime & Legal$4,200Recreation & Sports$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Animals$1,000Environment$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCenturion Foundation Inc — $21,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetRJK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROOPERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA CRIME COMMISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPOLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSIAN AMERICAN OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE — $495 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Centurion Foundation Inc
  • Who funds RJK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds TROOPERS MEMORIAL FUND INC
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA CRIME COMMISSION INC
  • Who funds POLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST
  • Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds RUSSIAN AMERICAN OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE

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.

Dippell Family FoundationNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dippell Family Foundation · Seymour Feldman Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Harold & Ruth 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harold & Ruth Allen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Harold & Ruth Allen 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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