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Allen Family Philanthropies: 112 grants to organizations, $58 million (tax year ended December 2024)
Allen Family Philanthropies, a private foundation in Seattle, WA, paid 112 grants to organizations totaling $57,950,248 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 13, 2025. The largest was $10,422,623 to Artsfund in Seattle, WA for to support the community accelerator grant renewal for the second year of program administration..
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- EIN
- 943082532
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
- Assets
- $1,380,464,618
- Grants paid
- $57,950,248
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 13, 2025, IRS object ID 202513179349103231. It reported $57,950,248 in grants paid; 112 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artsfund | Seattle, WA | To support the community accelerator grant renewal for the second year of program administration. | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,422,623 | apps.irs.gov |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | To support the allen discovery center for human brain evolution at boston children's hospital and harvard medical school | Health care | $2,500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | To support the allen discovery center for neuroimmune interactions | Education | $2,500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | To support the allen discovery center for neurobiology in changing environments | Health care | $2,500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | To support allen discovery center for cell lineage tracing phase 2 | Education | $2,500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Geographic Society | Washington, DC | To support the slingshot challenge | Education | $1,763,533 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of Seattle Waterfront | Seattle, WA | To support cultural programming at waterfront park | Community improvement and capacity building | $1,518,612 | apps.irs.gov |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To support a project titled "operation pangolin" | Education | $1,435,763 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Earthshot Prize | London, UK | To support the renewal for the earthshot prize founding partnership | $1,276,100 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Heart Association Inc | Seattle, WA | To support bioscience research in relation to advancing our understanding of brain health and cognitive impairment | $1,250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | New York, NY | To support decoding mycorrhizal networks at global scale | Environment | $1,042,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | New York, NY | To support decoding mycorrhizal networks at global scale | Environment | $1,042,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | To support oceans 5 renewal | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford, UK | To support lion lifeline: transforming conservation at scale by linking investment to measurable success in conserving lions and wider biodiversity | $800,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Earth Genome | Los Altos, CA | To support a blueprint for scalable seagrass ecosystem mapping | Environment | $763,083 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Friends of the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess | Cambridge, MA | To support united for wildlife in combating illegal wildlife trade | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $750,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Housing Lopez | Lopez Island, WA | To support rooted and rising campaign: lopez island | Housing and shelter | $750,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc | Seattle, WA | To support the amplify campaign | Arts, culture and humanities | $750,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | To support the salish sea coupled modeling framework. | Education | $729,869 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Earth Species Project | Berkeley, CA | To support the development of a foundation model for encoding animal vocalizations | $600,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mukuru Clean Stoves Foundation | Kalandin, KE | To support combatting air pollution & malaria | $585,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | To support acoustic monitoring of marine mammals with distributed acoustic sensing (das): applications to southern resident killer and humpback whales | Education | $529,270 | apps.irs.gov |
| Asia Pacific Cultural Center | Tacoma, WA | To support one heart, one home campaign: new building project | Arts, culture and humanities | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | To support sex hormone morphogenesis: a new frontier in studying organ development | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | To support composition and functionality of the ev corona: learning from lipoproteins | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Murdoch Children's Research Institute | Melbourne, AS | To support understanding the effects of gender affirming hormone therapy (gaht) on immune function using a systems immunology approach | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | To support mechanobiology tools for dissecting drivers of membrane mechanics, form, and function | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | To support measuring lipid fluxes at membrane contact sites using new chemogenetic proximity sensors | Health care | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Research Corporation | Tucson, AZ | To support the scialog: neurobiology in a changing environment (nce) program | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | To support the shark conservation fund | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago, IL | To support real-time label-free dynamic imaging of extracellular vesicles in live tissues | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | To support intra- and inter-cellular communication driven by membrane contact sites within a virus microenvironment | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | To support optical tools for visualizing sex hormones as drivers of dynamic internal states | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tubman Center for Health & Freedom | Seattle, WA | To support fortifying futures for our youth | Health care | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | To support blood-brain communication via extracellular vesicles underlying brain function and behavior | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | To support data-driven modeling of inter-organelle dynamic interactions throughout differentiation with multispectral and label free live imaging | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | To support extracellular vesicles in maintenance of neuronal circuitry | Health care | $499,802 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Science and Technology Austria | Klosterneuburg, AU | To support chemically active membranes in the generation of cell shape | $499,787 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Shunpike | Seattle, WA | To support downtown seattle: make it here | Arts, culture and humanities | $487,475 | apps.irs.gov |
| European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg, GM | To support david and goliath at the cell surface: photo-crosslinkable lipid derivatives to control membrane mechanics | $484,219 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Leibniz-Institut Fur Alternsforschung Fritz-Lipmann-Institut Ev | Jena, GM | To support pro-watch: an approach to monitor protein lifespan in aging worms | $427,163 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev | Munich, GM | To support visualizing lipid nutrient turnover in human tissue models | $424,690 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Sarasota, FL | To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas | $420,376 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | To support controlled labeling of the nascent proteome to track protein lifespan in mammalian cells | Education | $416,660 | apps.irs.gov |
| European Molecular Biology Laboratory | Heidelberg, GM | To support a project titled, "ageing proteins: biology or chemistry? systematic characterization of young and old proteins in vivo" | $414,426 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Coeur D'alene Tribe | Plummer, ID | To support climate-safe and salmon-safe: natural climate solutions in the inland northwest | $405,734 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | To support expansion mass spectrometry: literally stretching metabolite sensing to new spatial limits | Education | $389,609 | apps.irs.gov |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | To support spatial nutrientomics based on dnazyme and dna aptamer sensors | $389,200 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Children of the Setting Sun Productions | Bellingham, WA | To support setting sun institute, tribal youth leadership, and community crisis response | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $385,643 | apps.irs.gov |
| Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fur Gesundheit Und Um | Neuherberg, GM | To support subcellular compartmentalization of metabolism | $385,400 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | Arlington, VA | To support implementing process-based stream restoration as a carbon sequestration strategy in the klamath basin, oregon and resurrection creek, alaska | Animal-related | $373,307 | apps.irs.gov |
| Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Grace Cente | Niwot, CO | To support biodiversity monitoring in the tayna-usala conservation corridor | $344,402 | apps.irs.gov | |
| African Parks Foundation of America | New York, NY | To support african parks edna ecological network assessments and analyses | $316,810 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Sarasota, FL | To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas | $310,496 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Seattle Childrens Theatre Association | Seattle, WA | To support youth access to theatre: the one&five program. | Education | $306,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| African Parks Foundation of America | New York, NY | To support african parks edna ecological network assessments and analyses | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Siff | Seattle, WA | To support siffsupports program expansion to siff cinema downtown | Youth development | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | To support chignik fisheries in advancing resilience in alaskan communities | $295,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Bonneville Environmental Foundation | Portland, OR | To support mainstreaming beaver based restoration as a natural climate solution across the pacific northwest | Environment | $276,538 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago, IL | To support precision live single cell nano-surgery for revealing proteome dynamics | $273,882 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mara Elephant Project USA Inc | Carmel, IN | To support developing ecoscope for global conservation data analyses | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $273,636 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, WA | To support free first thursday evenings at sam | Arts, culture and humanities | $259,910 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | Chicago, IL | To support the civic curriculum and awareness campaign | Arts, culture and humanities | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Conservation Science Partners Inc | Truckee, CA | To support the sensor optimization project | Science and technology | $243,069 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nisqually Community Forest | Olympia, WA | To support the nisqually tribe and nisqually community forest busy wild creek forest-resilience project | Environment | $239,793 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of British Columbia | Vancouver, CA | To support restoring diverse forests with indigenous cultural fire | $226,402 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ocean Foundation | Washington, DC | To support gem-in-a-box: the global eutrophication monitoring program | Environment | $223,276 | apps.irs.gov |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To support pacsp tools: strengthening conservation partnerships by advancing molecular and analytic tools for disrupting illegal wildlife trade | Education | $217,230 | apps.irs.gov |
| State of Hawaii DLNR - Aso | Honolulu, HI | To support leveraging the mosquito holobiont to suppress disease and advance avian conservation | $214,920 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Native Conservancy | Cordova, AK | To support measuring the climate impact of indigenous seaweed farming in alaska | Environment | $198,033 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory | Brighton, CO | To support pacsp - tools: restoring grassland bird populations using genomically-informed, full annual cycle, integrated population models | Animal-related | $191,154 | apps.irs.gov |
| Rhizome Action Network Inc | Seattle, WA | To support civic service fellowship: washington state pilot | $189,200 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Sarasota, FL | To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas | $161,127 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Montana | Missoula, MT | To support collaborating research: pacsp: looking back to move forward - integrating genomics into long-term diversity monitoring of grizzly bears | $155,772 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Theatre Off Jackson | Seattle, WA | To support a project titled reimagining toj: expanding and activating space | Arts, culture and humanities | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Chicago Park District | Chicago, IL | To support conservation potential of existing lawns: enhancing & replacing lawns with native plants for biodiversity & ecosystem function in urban plant communities of chicago | $144,428 | apps.irs.gov | |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | To support adapting disturbance management to future climate in a fire-prone ecosystem: does response of an at-risk species indicate biodiversity effects? | Environment | $142,479 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wild Salmon Center | Portland, OR | To support creating genomics tools to conserve salmon run timing diversity and resilience (run timing project) | Animal-related | $135,955 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Earthshot Prize | London, UK | To support the renewal for the earthshot prize founding partnership | $114,022 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | To support pacsp tools: strengthening conservation partnerships by advancing molecular and analytic tools for disrupting illegal wildlife trade | $104,726 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Family First Community Center Foundation | Renton, WA | To support the family first community center | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Shunpike | Seattle, WA | To support base camp studios downtown | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Home Range Wildlife Research | Winthrop, WA | To support planning for climate resilient forests that support canada lynx | Animal-related | $94,769 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Sarasota, FL | To support collaborative research: pacsp tools: epics: explainable ai driven individual photo-identification & tracking for cost-effective conservation study | $91,533 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Southeast Effective Development | Seattle, WA | To support building the future of cam | Community improvement and capacity building | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Bird Conservancy | Marshall, VA | To support using big data and a translational ecology approach to inform full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds in the appalachian mountains | Animal-related | $67,596 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Kennesaw, GA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of King County | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Passageways | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Youth development | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Farestart | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Employment | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nami Seattle | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Mental health and crisis intervention | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Northwest Harvest E M M | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Plymouth Housing Group | Seattle, WA | To support spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Housing and shelter | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seattle Out & Proud Foundation | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Health care | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Young Women Empowered | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Youth development | $35,062 | apps.irs.gov |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | To support unmasking and exploiting astrocyte biology | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To support the reconstructing concussion project | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | To support scalable question answering and reasoning with external knowledge | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fob Hope | Puyallup, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Human services | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Gold Star Families of Washington | Edmonds, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Public and societal benefit | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Growing Veterans | Lynden, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Human services | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Heroes Homestead | Clayton, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Public and societal benefit | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Minority Veterans of America | Seattle, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Nineline Veterans Services | Fife, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Northwest Battle Buddies | Battle Ground, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Human services | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Omf Community Outreach | Edmonds, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Human services | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Permission To Start Dreaming Foundation | Gig Harbor, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
| Qmissions | Auburn, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Salmon for Soldiers | Union, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Veteran Rites Inc | Tacoma, WA | To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season) | Human services | $2,922 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $12,920,008 |
| Education | $10,807,934 |
| Health care | $6,534,864 |
| Environment | $3,928,202 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,912,201 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $1,593,612 |
| Animal-related | $862,781 |
| Housing and shelter | $785,062 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Washington | $22,533,848 |
| New York | $7,201,810 |
| California | $5,615,954 |
| Massachusetts | $3,666,660 |
| Florida | $2,636,525 |
| District of Columbia | $1,986,809 |
| Illinois | $1,168,310 |
| New Jersey | $1,000,000 |
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Updated November 13, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.