Washington · Private foundation
Allen Family Philanthropies
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.
- $58M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 112
- Grants FY2024
- 97
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,422,623
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 106
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 24
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Allen Family Philanthropies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 91 | $56M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 97 | $43M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $44M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $42M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $56M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $42M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $41M | 49% |
| FY2017 | 106 | $32M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Washington Foundation | $37,471,391 | 8 | 5% |
| Mercy Housing Northwest | $28,870,207 | 5 | 76% |
| Artsfund | $21,342,570 | 5 | 64% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,250,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $20,000,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $9,249,070 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $5,499,368 | 6 | n/a |
| American Friends of the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales | $5,085,814 | 4 | 31% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $5,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $5,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 183 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 115 recipients with no EIN on record ($90M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Allen Family Philanthropies supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 167 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Gates Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · School's Out Washington · Raikes Foundation · Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Allen Family Philanthropies
- How much does Allen Family Philanthropies give?
- Allen Family Philanthropies reported 112 grants totaling $57,950,248 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 106 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Allen Family Philanthropies fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (24%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Allen Family Philanthropies's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Washington Foundation ($37M), Mercy Housing Northwest ($29M), Artsfund ($21M).
- Does Allen Family Philanthropies fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Family Philanthropies accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Family Philanthropies?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation.
- Where is Allen Family Philanthropies based?
- Allen Family Philanthropies is based in WA.
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