· Public charity
The Marcus Allen Foundation
Our mission is to use our platform to support organizations who provide economic assistance to underprivileged children using sports as an outlet.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $165,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $195,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA | $25,000 |
| JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YOUNG WARRIORS | $25,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| HAPPY HABITS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER FUND | $10,000 |
| THE LIFE RING FOUNDATION | $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 (FY23–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 44% of The Marcus 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. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +258% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- JJJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $110k · revenue +258%
- LSLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA2× · 2023–2024 · $95k · revenue -41%
- LHLINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $55k
Funded once
- TMTHE MIRACLE HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ASALL STAR FOR HELPING KIDSone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ASALL STARS HELPING KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +0%
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.
Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they concentrate on what is most important - fighting for their child's life.
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To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
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The mission of the foundation is to inspire, promote, and develop solutions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.
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Friends of kids with cancer is devoted to enriching the daily lives of children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases....(see schedule o)our mission is to be an advocate for these special kids…
The mission of kay yow cancer fund is to be a part of finding an answer in the fight against all cancers affecting women; through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved, and unifying people for a common cause.
Provide support for irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations involved in raising and distributing funds to invest in breakthrough cancer research and clinical trials to find a cure for women-related cancers and ending domestic violence.
The cal ripken, sr. foundation helps to strengthen america's most underserved and distressed communities by supporting and advocating for children, building youth development parks, partnering with law enforcement and youth service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Miracle House Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds LIFE RING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 Marcus 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.
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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