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The Lorraine Allen and Rita Mae Allen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lorraine Allen and Rita Mae Allen Family 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.

$229k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$400kEducation$203kCivil Rights$45kInternational$35kCommunity Improvement$31kHuman Services$30kHealth$25kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS$70,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$15,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$15,000
J ASSOCIATES$11,360
CONGREGATION SHAARE EMETH$10,000
CAMP BEN FRANKEN$10,000
BE THE NARRATIVE$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 11%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$584k · 21 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$584k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

24%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +8%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +225%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • KA
    KNIGHT ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJ ASSOCIATES: $26,360 · OtherJ ASSOCIATESIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherKNIGHT ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherJSU OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · Other+15 more: $115,000 · Other+15 moreJewish Federation of St Louis: $295,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St LouisJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $105,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOISNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · InternationalBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc: $20,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$481,360Philanthropy$400,000Community Improvement$50,000International$35,000Education$20,000Human Services$15,000

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 budgetJewish Federation of St Louis: $295,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $105,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Be The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL ↗

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.

Millstone FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Millstone FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Millstone Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lorraine Allen and Rita Mae Allen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lorraine Allen and Rita Mae Allen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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