Minnesota · Nonprofit
J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION
J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND LEONA SCHMITT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $17k
What J Aron Allen Legacy Foundation does
Mission
As he aptly demonstrated throughout his life, youth sports and student athletics, and all that one can learn from them, were particularly important to aron allen. As such, with particular emphasis and focus on youth sports and student athletics in the state of minnesota and as well as elsewhere, this corporation shall have as its purpose the mission to:a) support and conduct education, awareness and/or informational activities directed at preventing head injuries;b) support and advance scientific research directed at the detection, diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries; and c) support and further efforts to address the mental health challenges that frequently come with brain injuries, with the overall goal of preventing brain injuries and improving outcomes for patients who suffer from brain trauma, as a way of honoring the life and legacy of j. Aron allen, who passed away on august 8, 2018.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Proceeds from prior year fundraiser & golf tournament distributed to fund research
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $88k to $3k (−97%).
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.
100% of J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shelley A Allen
Executive director/preside
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION’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
J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION's revenue fell 100% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION: 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 J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND LEONA SCHMITT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- WALTER AND LEONA SCHMITT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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