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Allen Family Philanthropies is a private corporation based in SEATTLE, WA. The foundation received its IRS ruling in 1989. It holds total assets of $1.4B. Annual income is reported at $1.9B. The foundation operates in the area of philanthropy & grantmaking. According to available records, Allen Family Philanthropies has made 338 grants totaling $145M, with a median grant of $303K. Annual giving has decreased from $97.4M in 2022 to $47.6M in 2023. Individual grants have ranged from $68 to $10M, with an average award of $429K. The foundation has supported 124 unique organizations. The foundation primarily supports organizations in Washington, New York, Massachusetts, which account for 54% of all grants. Grantmaking reaches organizations across 23 states. Contributions to this foundation are tax-deductible.
Allen Family Philanthropies primarily funds organizations in the area of philanthropy & grantmaking. Based on available records, the foundation has funded 338 grants. Its grantmaking reaches organizations primarily in WA, NY, MA.
Allen Family Philanthropies has distributed a total of $145M across 338 grants. The median grant size is $303K, with an average of $429K. Individual grants have ranged from $68 to $10M.
Allen Family Philanthropies typically selects its grantees rather than accepting unsolicited proposals.
Allen Family Philanthropies is headquartered in SEATTLE, WA. While based in WA, the foundation distributes grants to organizations across 23 states.
| Name | Title | Compensation | Benefits | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marilyn Valentine | DIRECTOR | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Jo Lynn Allen | CHAIR/DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Joyce Lee Start 4222023 | VP & TREASURER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Allen D Israel End 472023 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Susan Drake End 472023 | VICE PRESIDENT | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Total Giving
$64M
Total Assets
$1.3B
Fair Market Value
$1.3B
Net Worth
$1.3B
Grants Paid
$47.2M
Contributions
$0
Net Investment Income
$106.1M
Distribution Amount
$59.4M
Total: $962.2M
Total Grants
338
Total Giving
$145M
Average Grant
$429K
Median Grant
$303K
Unique Recipients
124
Most Common Grant
$500K
of 2023 grantees were first-time recipients
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research CorporationTO SUPPORT A PROGRAM TO CATALYZE NEW RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING HOW THE MICROBIOME CONTRIBUTES TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE "GUT-BRAIN AXIS". | Tucson, AZ | $500K | 2023 |
| University Of Washington FoundationTO SUPPORT ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR CELL LINEAGE TRACING PHASE 2 | Seattle, WA | $2.5M | 2023 |
| Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount SinaiTO SUPPORT THE ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS | New York, NY | $2.5M | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital CorporationTO SUPPORT THE ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR HUMAN BRAIN EVOLUTION AT BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | Boston, MA | $2.5M | 2023 |
| Alison Ivey | VP & SECRETARY | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Danielle Harper | VICE PRESIDENT | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Thomas Daniel | DIRECTOR | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 2018 | 990PF | View |
| 2017 | 990PF | View |
| 2016 | 990PF | View |
| National Geographic SocietyTO SUPPORT THE SLINGSHOT CHALLENGE | Washington, DC | $1.6M | 2023 |
| Sustainable Markets FoundationTO SUPPORT DECODING MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS AT GLOBAL SCALE | New York, NY | $1.4M | 2023 |
| Southeast Effective DevelopmentTO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUENCY: A CULTURAL SPACE ADVISORY PROGRAM | Seattle, WA | $1.3M | 2023 |
| Florida International University Foundation IncTO SUPPORT A PROJECT TITLED "OPERATION PANGOLIN" | Miami, FL | $1.3M | 2023 |
| The Earthshot PrizeTO SUPPORT THE RENEWAL FOR THE EARTHSHOT PRIZE FOUNDING PARTNERSHIP | London | $1.3M | 2023 |
| American Heart Association IncTO SUPPORT BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH IN RELATION TO ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT | Seattle, WA | $1.3M | 2023 |
| Fresnos Chaffee Zoo CorporationTO SUPPORT QUANTIFYING SELECTION LANDSCAPES WHILE HEAD-STARTING ENDANGERED BLUNT-NOSED LEOPARD LIZARDS (GAMBELIA SILA) | Fresno, CA | $1.2M | 2023 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors IncTO SUPPORT OCEANS 5 RENEWAL | New York, NY | $1M | 2023 |
| Pride FoundationTO SUPPORT THE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FOR YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS PILOT | Seattle, WA | $940K | 2023 |
| Chancellor Masters & Scholars Of The University Of OxfordTO SUPPORT LION LIFELINE: TRANSFORMING CONSERVATION AT SCALE BY LINKING INVESTMENT TO MEASURABLE SUCCESS IN CONSERVING LIONS AND WIDER BIODIVERSITY | Oxford | $800K | 2023 |
| Smithsonian InstituteTO SUPPORT RESTORING BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS TO THEIR HISTORIC RANGE IN NORTHCENTRAL MONTANA | Washington, DC | $792K | 2023 |
| Bishop MuseumTO SUPPORT ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY SHORTFALLS TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND ACTION FOR ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS | Honolulu, HI | $748K | 2023 |
| The Earth Species ProjectTO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOUNDATION MODEL FOR ENCODING ANIMAL VOCALIZATIONS | Berkeley, CA | $600K | 2023 |
| Wildlife Crime Prevention ProjectTO SUPPORT THE REGIONAL INTERMEDIARY AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | Lusaka | $573K | 2023 |
| University Of British ColumbiaTO SUPPORT A FATE-MAPPED HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LIBRARY FOR DESIGNER ORGANOIDS | Vancouver | $562K | 2023 |
| Zoological Society Of San DiegoTO SUPPORT BURROWS AS BUFFERS: DO MICROHABITAT SELECTION AND BEHAVIOR MEDIATE DESERT TORTOISE RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE? | Escondido, CA | $551K | 2023 |
| Mote Marine LaboratoryTO SUPPORT GLOBAL FINPRINT 2: TRACKING GLOBAL FINPRINT OF SHARKS IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS | Sarasota, FL | $500K | 2023 |
| Whitehead Institute For Biomedical ResearchTO SUPPORT ENGINEERING THE STROMAL SECRETOME TO PROGRAM ORGAN DEVELOPMENT AND MATURATION | Cambridge, MA | $500K | 2023 |
| University Of FloridaTO SUPPORT RECONSTRUCTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE MOTOR NEURAL CIRCUITS OF THE LAST COMMON ANIMAL ANCESTOR | Gainesville, FL | $500K | 2023 |
| American Friends Of The Royal Foundation Of The Duke And DuchessTO SUPPORT UNITED FOR WILDLIFE IN COMBATING ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE | Cambridge, MA | $500K | 2023 |
| University Of Alabama At BirminghamTO SUPPORT BLOOD-BRAIN COMMUNICATION VIA EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES UNDERLYING BRAIN FUNCTION AND BEHAVIOR | Birmingham, AL | $500K | 2023 |
| Tubman Center For Health & FreedomTO SUPPORT FORTIFYING FUTURES FOR OUR YOUTH | Seattle, WA | $500K | 2023 |
| Trustees Of Princeton UniversityTO SUPPORT OPTICAL TOOLS FOR VISUALIZING SEX HORMONES AS DRIVERS OF DYNAMIC INTERNAL STATES | Princeton, NJ | $500K | 2023 |
| Columbia University In The City Of New YorkTO SUPPORT SEX HORMONE MORPHOGENESIS: A NEW FRONTIER IN STUDYING ORGAN DEVELOPMENT | New York, NY | $500K | 2023 |
| Trustees Of Boston UniversityTO SUPPORT ENGINEERING BRANCHING NETWORKS THROUGH SYNTHETIC TURING MORPHOGEN CIRCUITS | Boston, MA | $500K | 2023 |
| The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of IllinoisTO SUPPORT REAL-TIME LABEL-FREE DYNAMIC IMAGING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN LIVE TISSUES | Chicago, IL | $500K | 2023 |
| The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityTO SUPPORT MINING THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIAL MICROPROTEOME FOR MODULATORS OF INFLAMMATION | Stanford, CA | $500K | 2023 |
| Yale UniversityTO SUPPORT DISCOVERY OF MICROPEPTIDES IN HUMAN IMMUNE CELLS AND SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS | New Haven, CT | $500K | 2023 |
| San Francisco State UniversityTO SUPPORT BUILDING A MODEL OF A COMPLEX BRAIN UNCONSTRAINED BY SHARED EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; SENSORI-MOTOR INTEGRATION AND PLASTICITY IN CEPHALOPOD MOLLUSCS | San Francisco, CA | $500K | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins UniversityTO SUPPORT COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EV CORONA: LEARNING FROM LIPOPROTEINS | Baltimore, MD | $500K | 2023 |
| Rockefeller UniversityTO SUPPORT THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION, AND DYNAMICS OF MICROPEPTIDES IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM | New York, NY | $500K | 2023 |
| Murdoch Children'S Research InstituteTO SUPPORT UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF GENDER AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY (GAHT) ON IMMUNE FUNCTION USING A SYSTEMS IMMUNOLOGY APPROACH | Melbourne | $500K | 2023 |
| Asia Pacific Cultural CenterTO SUPPORT ONE HEART, ONE HOME CAMPAIGN: NEW BUILDING PROJECT | Tacoma, WA | $500K | 2023 |
| Katholieke Universiteit Te LeuvenTO SUPPORT ACTUOIDS: GUIDED TISSUE MORPHOGENESIS USING SOFT ACTUATION | Leuven | $500K | 2023 |
| Regents Of The University Of California At San DiegoTO SUPPORT EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN MAINTENANCE OF NEURONAL CIRCUITRY | La Jolla, CA | $500K | 2023 |
| The Francis Crick Institute LimitedTO SUPPORT IDENTIFYING THE CIRCUIT MECHANISMS OF JUMPING IN SCAPTODROSOPHILA LARVAE | London | $465K | 2023 |
| Wildlife Conservation SocietyTO SUPPORT CITES WORK RELATED TO SHARKS | Bronx, NY | $462K | 2023 |
| State Of Hawaii Dlnr - AsoTO SUPPORT ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY SHORTFALLS TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND ACTION FOR ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS | Honolulu, HI | $440K | 2023 |
| Fritz-Lipmann InstituteTO SUPPORT PRO-WATCH: AN APPROACH TO MONITOR PROTEIN LIFESPAN IN AGING WORMS | Jena | $421K | 2023 |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften EvTO SUPPORT VISUALIZING LIPID NUTRIENT TURNOVER IN HUMAN TISSUE MODELS | Munich | $417K | 2023 |
| Boston College TrusteesTO SUPPORT CONTROLLED LABELING OF THE NASCENT PROTEOME TO TRACK PROTEIN LIFESPAN IN MAMMALIAN CELLS | Chestnut Hill, MA | $417K | 2023 |
| Mukuru Clean Stoves FoundationTO SUPPORT COMBATTING AIR POLLUTION & MALARIA | Siaya County | $413K | 2023 |
| Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fur Gesundheit Und UmTO SUPPORT SUBCELLULAR COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF METABOLISM | Neuherberg | $403K | 2023 |
| European Molecular Biology LaboratoryTO SUPPORT A PROJECT TITLED, "AGEING PROTEINS: BIOLOGY OR CHEMISTRY? SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF YOUNG AND OLD PROTEINS IN VIVO" | Heidelberg | $403K | 2023 |
| ArtsfundTO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY ACCELERATOR GRANT: LEARNING PILOT | Seattle, WA | $388K | 2023 |
| University Of KonstanzTO SUPPORT GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GENETIC REGULATORS OF CORAL RESILIENCE TO THERMAL STRESS | Konstanz | $387K | 2023 |
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