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Allyn Family Foundation

Scottsdale, AZ · EIN 86-6296683. Reported 80 grants totalling $340,000 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,487median grant
$340,000granted, 2021-2024
24organizations funded
95%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,778,202assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Allyn Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,487. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $4,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $36,070. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
62 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Dayton FoundationDayton, OH$109,570442024
Northeast Pennsylvania Council BSAMoosic, PA$25,000442024
Community Food Bank of So ArizonaTucson, AZ$17,000442024
Northwest Nj Community ActionPhillipsburg, NJ$16,400332023
Literacy ConnectsTucson, AZ$16,000442024
Arizona Public MediaTucson, AZ$15,000332024
Alfre IncMorristown, NJ$14,555442024
Headquarters Community Developers IncMorristown, NJ$14,500442024
Regina Dominican High SchoolWilmette, IL$13,000442024
Family Promises of Morris CountyMorristown, NJ$12,610442024
Cornerstone Church of TucsonTucson, AZ$12,000442024
Stanford UniversityPalo Alto, CA$8,000442024
Windsor SchoolBoston, MA$8,000442024
Gill Stbernard's SchoolGladstone, NJ$7,600442024
Foothills Animal RescueScottsdale, AZ$7,000112024
Children on the GreenMorristown, NJ$6,165332023
Depauw UniversityGreencastle, IN$6,000442024
Phoenix Country Day SchoolParadise Valley, AZ$5,600222024
Kuaz FmamTucson, AZ$5,000112021
Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie, NY$5,000442024
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$4,000222022
Pima Council on AgingTucson, AZ$4,000442024
Saint Joseph and Francis XavierWilmette, IL$4,000112024
Youth on Their OwnTucson, AZ$4,000442024

21 of 24 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 95%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
11 grants
Education
10 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$89,000$2,765
202220$80,000$2,550
202320$80,000$3,272
202420$91,000$3,777

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 32% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$110K
Arizona
$86K
New Jersey
$72K
Pennsylvania
$25K
Illinois
$17K
New York
$9K
California
$8K
Massachusetts
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,487. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Allyn Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 14301 N 87TH Street, Scottsdale, AZ, 85260. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 86-6296683 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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