Washington · Nonprofit
ALLEN INSTITUTE
ALLEN INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,273,001 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($10,230,668). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $272M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $204M
What Allen Institute does
Mission
The mission of the Allen Institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach. The Allen Institute focuses on accelerating foundational research, (see schedule o) developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a broad, transformational impact on science.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Allen Institute is dedicated to answering some of the biggest questions in bioscience and accelerating research worldwide. The institute is a recognized leader in large-scale research with a commitment to an open science model. Through publicly available knowledge, data, models, tools, and reagents, the institute catalyzes scientific discovery and nurtures medical breakthroughs.
$217,788,787 spentof which $21,344,474 as grants$722,210 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $217,788,787.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $190M to $318M (+67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 74% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ALLEN INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $3.7M.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLEN INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLEN INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLEN INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLEN INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 67% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 44% · 2022 46% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of ALLEN INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALLEN INSTITUTE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLEN INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding ALLEN INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $496.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$494.3M
- National Science Foundation$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLEN INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLEN INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE?
- ALLEN INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,273,001 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($10,230,668). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLEN INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $38,273,001 in grants to ALLEN INSTITUTE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLEN INSTITUTE?
- President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $10,230,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLEN INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing