· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA | $25,000 |
| JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YOUNG WARRIORS | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER FUND | $10,000 |
| HAPPY HABITS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LIFE RING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 44% of The Marcus Allen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 17%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JJJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $110k · revenue +125%
- 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%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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.
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
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.
Fresh start caring for kids foundation provides no-cost medical services to kids with physical deformities caused by birth defects, injury, abuse or disease through surgical weekends and clinics. medical services are donated by doctors,…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire, promote, and develop solutions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
The Childrens Cancer Foundation, Inc. (Organization) is a charitable, not-for-profit corporation committed to funding locally-based researchers, programs and facilities until every child is assured a healthy cancer free future. The…
The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…
To improve the lives of young people in greater los angeles by creating impactful programs that will help them pursue their dreams while building fundamental life skills.
The michael hoefflin foundation for children's cancer is a public non profit 501(c)3 foundation that provides financial and emotional support to children and their families in the santa clarita valley, antelope valley, san fernando…
To empower young women and create equality for female athletes in the sport of basketball and beyond the court.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE RING FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marcus Allen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marcus Allen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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