The Paul G Allen Family Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $10.4M

  Artsfund · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the community accelerator grant renewal for the second year of program administration.

• $2.5M

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the allen discovery center for neuroimmune interactions

• $2.5M

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support allen discovery center for cell lineage tracing phase 2

• $2.5M

  Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  To support the allen discovery center for neurobiology in changing environments

• $2.5M

  Childrens Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024

  To support the allen discovery center for human brain evolution at boston children's hospital and harvard medical school

• $1.8M

  National Geographic Society · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support the slingshot challenge

• $1.5M

  Friends of Seattle Waterfront · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support cultural programming at waterfront park

• $1.4M

  Florida International University Foundation · Miami, FL · 2024

  To support a project titled "operation pangolin"

• $1.3M

  The Earthshot Prize · 2024

  To support the renewal for the earthshot prize founding partnership

• $1.3M

  American Heart Association · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support bioscience research in relation to advancing our understanding of brain health and cognitive impairment

• $1.0M

  Sustainable Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  To support decoding mycorrhizal networks at global scale

• $1.0M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  To support oceans 5 renewal

• $800,000

  Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024

  To support lion lifeline: transforming conservation at scale by linking investment to measurable success in conserving lions and wider biodiversity

• $763,083

  Earth Genome · Los Altos, CA · 2024

  To support a blueprint for scalable seagrass ecosystem mapping

• $750,000

  Housing Lopez · Lopez Island, WA · 2024

  To support rooted and rising campaign: lopez island

• $750,000

  American Friends of the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To support united for wildlife in combating illegal wildlife trade

• $750,000

  Seattle Symphony Orchestra · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the amplify campaign

• $729,869

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the salish sea coupled modeling framework.

• $600,000

  The Earth Species Project · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  To support the development of a foundation model for encoding animal vocalizations

• $585,000

  Mukuru Clean Stoves Foundation · 2024

  To support combatting air pollution & malaria

• $529,270

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support acoustic monitoring of marine mammals with distributed acoustic sensing (das): applications to southern resident killer and humpback whales

• $500,000

  Regents Univ of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support mechanobiology tools for dissecting drivers of membrane mechanics, form, and function

• $500,000

  Asia Pacific Cultural Center · Tacoma, WA · 2024

  To support one heart, one home campaign: new building project

• $500,000

  Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024

  To support sex hormone morphogenesis: a new frontier in studying organ development

• $500,000

  Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  To support measuring lipid fluxes at membrane contact sites using new chemogenetic proximity sensors

• $500,000

  Murdoch Children'S Research Institute · 2024

  To support understanding the effects of gender affirming hormone therapy (gaht) on immune function using a systems immunology approach

• $500,000

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  To support composition and functionality of the ev corona: learning from lipoproteins

• $500,000

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  To support data-driven modeling of inter-organelle dynamic interactions throughout differentiation with multispectral and label free live imaging

• $500,000

  University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024

  To support blood-brain communication via extracellular vesicles underlying brain function and behavior

• $500,000

  Tubman Center for Health & Freedom · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support fortifying futures for our youth

• $500,000

  Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  To support optical tools for visualizing sex hormones as drivers of dynamic internal states

• $500,000

  Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  To support intra- and inter-cellular communication driven by membrane contact sites within a virus microenvironment

• $500,000

  The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support real-time label-free dynamic imaging of extracellular vesicles in live tissues

• $500,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  To support the shark conservation fund

• $500,000

  Research Corporation · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  To support the scialog: neurobiology in a changing environment (nce) program

• $499,802

  Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  To support extracellular vesicles in maintenance of neuronal circuitry

• $499,787

  Institute of Science and Technology Austria · 2024

  To support chemically active membranes in the generation of cell shape

• $487,475

  Shunpike · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support downtown seattle: make it here

• $484,219

  European Molecular Biology Laboratory · 2024

  To support david and goliath at the cell surface: photo-crosslinkable lipid derivatives to control membrane mechanics

• $427,163

  Leibniz-Institut Fur Alternsforschung Fritz-Lipmann-Institut Ev · 2024

  To support pro-watch: an approach to monitor protein lifespan in aging worms

• $424,690

  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev · 2024

  To support visualizing lipid nutrient turnover in human tissue models

• $420,376

  Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2024

  To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas

• $416,660

  Boston College Trustees · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024

  To support controlled labeling of the nascent proteome to track protein lifespan in mammalian cells

• $414,426

  European Molecular Biology Laboratory · 2024

  To support a project titled, "ageing proteins: biology or chemistry? Systematic characterization of young and old proteins in vivo"

• $405,734

  Coeur D'Alene Tribe · Plummer, ID · 2024

  To support climate-safe and salmon-safe: natural climate solutions in the inland northwest

• $389,609

  Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2024

  To support expansion mass spectrometry: literally stretching metabolite sensing to new spatial limits

• $389,200

  The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024

  To support spatial nutrientomics based on dnazyme and dna aptamer sensors

• $385,643

  Children of the Setting Sun Productions · Bellingham, WA · 2024

  To support setting sun institute, tribal youth leadership, and community crisis response

• $385,400

  Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fur Gesundheit Und Um · 2024

  To support subcellular compartmentalization of metabolism

• $373,307

  Trout Unlimited · Arlington, VA · 2024

  To support implementing process-based stream restoration as a carbon sequestration strategy in the klamath basin, oregon and resurrection creek, alaska

• $344,402

  Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Grace Cente · Niwot, CO · 2024

  To support biodiversity monitoring in the tayna-usala conservation corridor

• $316,810

  African Parks Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2024

  To support african parks edna ecological network assessments and analyses

• $310,496

  Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2024

  To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas

• $306,000

  Seattle Childrens Theatre Association · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support youth access to theatre: the one&five program.

• $300,000

  African Parks Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2024

  To support african parks edna ecological network assessments and analyses

• $300,000

  Siff · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support siffsupports program expansion to siff cinema downtown

• $295,000

  University of Alaska · Fairbanks, AK · 2024

  To support chignik fisheries in advancing resilience in alaskan communities

• $276,538

  Bonneville Environmental Foundation · Portland, OR · 2024

  To support mainstreaming beaver based restoration as a natural climate solution across the pacific northwest

• $273,882

  The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support precision live single cell nano-surgery for revealing proteome dynamics

• $273,636

  Mara Elephant Project USA · Carmel, IN · 2024

  To support developing ecoscope for global conservation data analyses

• $259,910

  Seattle Art Museum · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support free first thursday evenings at sam

• $250,000

  The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support the civic curriculum and awareness campaign

• $243,069

  Conservation Science Partners · Truckee, CA · 2024

  To support the sensor optimization project

• $239,793

  Nisqually Community Forest · Olympia, WA · 2024

  To support the nisqually tribe and nisqually community forest busy wild creek forest-resilience project

• $226,402

  University of British Columbia · 2024

  To support restoring diverse forests with indigenous cultural fire

• $223,276

  Ocean Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support gem-in-a-box: the global eutrophication monitoring program

• $217,230

  Florida International University Foundation · Miami, FL · 2024

  To support pacsp tools: strengthening conservation partnerships by advancing molecular and analytic tools for disrupting illegal wildlife trade

• $214,920

  State of Hawaii Dlnr - Aso · Honolulu, HI · 2024

  To support leveraging the mosquito holobiont to suppress disease and advance avian conservation

• $198,033

  Native Conservancy · Cordova, AK · 2024

  To support measuring the climate impact of indigenous seaweed farming in alaska

• $191,154

  Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory · Brighton, CO · 2024

  To support pacsp - tools: restoring grassland bird populations using genomically-informed, full annual cycle, integrated population models

• $189,200

  Rhizome Action Network · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support civic service fellowship: washington state pilot

• $161,127

  Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2024

  To support global finprint 2: tracking global finprint of sharks in marine protected areas

• $155,772

  University of Montana · Missoula, MT · 2024

  To support collaborating research: pacsp: looking back to move forward - integrating genomics into long-term diversity monitoring of grizzly bears

• $150,000

  Theatre Off Jackson · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support a project titled reimagining toj: expanding and activating space

• $144,428

  Chicago Park District · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To support conservation potential of existing lawns: enhancing & replacing lawns with native plants for biodiversity & ecosystem function in urban plant communities of chicago

• $142,479

  North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  To support adapting disturbance management to future climate in a fire-prone ecosystem: does response of an at-risk species indicate biodiversity effects?

• $135,955

  Wild Salmon Center · Portland, OR · 2024

  To support creating genomics tools to conserve salmon run timing diversity and resilience (run timing project)

• $114,022

  The Earthshot Prize · 2024

  To support the renewal for the earthshot prize founding partnership

• $104,726

  University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2024

  To support pacsp tools: strengthening conservation partnerships by advancing molecular and analytic tools for disrupting illegal wildlife trade

• $100,000

  Shunpike · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support base camp studios downtown

• $100,000

  Family First Community Center Foundation · Renton, WA · 2024

  To support the family first community center

• $94,769

  Home Range Wildlife Research · Winthrop, WA · 2024

  To support planning for climate resilient forests that support canada lynx

• $91,533

  Mote Marine Laboratory · Sarasota, FL · 2024

  To support collaborative research: pacsp tools: epics: explainable ai driven individual photo-identification & tracking for cost-effective conservation study

• $75,000

  Southeast Effective Development · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support building the future of cam

• $67,596

  American Bird Conservancy · Marshall, VA · 2024

  To support using big data and a translational ecology approach to inform full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds in the appalachian mountains

• $35,062

  Boys and Girls Clubs of King County · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Seattle Out & Proud Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Community Passageways · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  American Cancer Society · Kennesaw, GA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Farestart · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Plymouth Housing Group · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Nami Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Northwest Harvest E M M · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Virginia Mason Medical Center · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $35,062

  Young Women Empowered · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)

• $10,000

  Regents Univ of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support unmasking and exploiting astrocyte biology

• $10,000

  University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To support scalable question answering and reasoning with external knowledge

• $10,000

  Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  To support the reconstructing concussion project

• $2,922

  Growing Veterans · Lynden, WA · 2024

  To support the spirit of 12 program (2023 season)