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Allen Institute
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Allen Institute, of Seattle, WA, was obligated $266M in federal awards across the 4 fiscal years in which it reached the $1.0M listing floor (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026).
In FY2026, the most recent complete fiscal year, obligations were $61M, with contracts under the listing floor.
That is down 21% on FY2025 ($77M).
Allen Institute ranks 50 of 622 listed organisations located in WA by five-year obligations, and 2,462 of 30,000 nationally.
Its $1.0M-plus awards since FY2023 came from Department of Health and Human Services and National Science Foundation: 17 awards worth $72M in total award value.
Obligations by fiscal year contracts vs assistance
| Fiscal year | All obligations | Contracts | Assistance | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $67,501,714 | under $1.0M | $67,501,714 | — |
| FY2024 | $59,948,178 | under $1.0M | $59,948,178 | -11% |
| FY2025 | $77,341,718 | under $1.0M | $77,341,718 | +29% |
| FY2026 | $60,891,481 | under $1.0M | $60,891,481 | -21% |
| FY2027 to date | under $1.0M | — | — | — |
A fiscal year runs 1 October to 30 September. "Contracts" are procurement award types A–D; "assistance" is everything else (grants, direct payments, loan subsidy cost, insurance, other). The contracts column is listed only where contract obligations alone reached $1.0M; the assistance figure is the remainder and may therefore include up to $1.0M of contracts.
Compared with its state and the largest recipients five listed years
| Measure | This organisation | Largest in WA | Largest nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five-year obligations (listed years) | $266M | $73B | $416B |
| FY2026 obligations | $61M | $23B | $118B |
| Contracts, five years | under $1.0M | under $1.0M | $94B |
| Assistance, five years | $266M | $73B | $416B |
| Rank by five-year obligations | 2,462 of 30,000 | 1 of 622 in WA | 1 |
Largest in state: Department of Social & Health Services. Largest nationally: Health Care Services, California Department of. Rankings count organisations located in the state, by the sum of their listed fiscal years.
Awarding agencies $1.0M+ awards since FY2023
| # | Agency | Awards | Award value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Health and Human Services | 16 | $70M | 97% |
| 2 | National Science Foundation | 1 | $2.2M | 3% |
Assistance programs listings
Places of performance $1.0M+ awards
Counties: King County, WA $66M
Largest awards begun since FY2023
| Awarding agency | Type | Industry or program | Award value | Begun | Place | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants | $18M | 31 Aug 2023 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.310 Trans-NIH Research Support | $6.7M | 22 Aug 2023 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.286 Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health | $6.3M | 16 Aug 2023 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.286 Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health | $5.7M | 6 Sep 2023 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants | $5.7M | 22 Apr 2025 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.310 Trans-NIH Research Support | $4.7M | 7 Jan 2025 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantProject Grant (B) | 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants | $4.5M | 22 Mar 2024 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.372 21ST Century Cures Act - Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies | $4.3M | 11 Aug 2025 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantCooperative Agreement (B) | 93.372 21ST Century Cures Act - Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies | $3.1M | 14 Aug 2023 | WA | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | $2.2M | 14 Aug 2026 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantProject Grant (B) | 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants | $1.9M | 11 Mar 2026 | WA | USAspending |
| Department of Health and Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health | GrantProject Grant (B) | 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants | $1.8M | 15 Nov 2023 | WA | USAspending |
Award value is the amount obligated to the award to date as USAspending reports it. Descriptions below are USAspending's text, unedited and truncated; those that appear to name a person are withheld.
- $18M, Department of Health and Human Services, 31 Aug 2023: BRAIN CONNECTS: CENTER FOR A PIPELINE OF HIGH THROUGHPUT INTEGRATED VOLUMETRIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FOR WHOLE MOUSE BRAIN CONNECTOMICS - PROJECT SUMMARY: CENTER
- $6.7M, Department of Health and Human Services, 22 Aug 2023: BRAIN CONNECTS: MAPPING BRAIN-WIDE CONNECTIVITY OF NEURONAL TYPES USING BARCODED CONNECTOMICS - PROJECT SUMMARY MAPPING THE BRAIN-WIDE CONNECTIONS OF NEURONS PR
- $6.3M, Department of Health and Human Services, 16 Aug 2023: NEUROPIXELS OPTO: INTEGRATED SILICON PROBES FOR CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY - PROJECT SUMMARY WITHIN EVERY BRAIN REGION, NEURONS CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO
- $5.7M, Department of Health and Human Services, 6 Sep 2023: BRAIN CONNECTS: PATCHLINK, SCALABLE TOOLS FOR INTEGRATING CONNECTOMES, PROJECTOMES, AND TRANSCRIPTOMES - PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT UPCOMING BRAIN-WIDE DESCRIPT
- $5.7M, Department of Health and Human Services, 22 Apr 2025: ENHANCER AAV TOOLBOX FOR CELL CLASSES AND SUBCLASSES IN THE BRAINS OF MOUSE, MACAQUE AND MARMOSET. - PROJECT SUMMARY WE PROPOSE TO CREATE, SCREEN, CHARACTERIZE,
- $4.7M, Department of Health and Human Services, 7 Jan 2025: BRAIN CONNECTS: AN INTEGRATIVE CONNECTOMICS COORDINATION CENTER (IC3) - PROJECT SUMMARY THE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES OF MAMMALIAN BRAINS ARISE FROM THEIR EXTRAORDINA
- $4.5M, Department of Health and Human Services, 22 Mar 2024: STRUCTURE-FUNCTION CELL ATLAS FOR NOREPINEPHRINE AND SEROTONIN NEURONS - PROJECT ABSTRACT NOREPINEPHRINE (NE) AND SEROTONIN (5-HT) ARE NEUROTRANSMITTERS RELEASE
- $4.3M, Department of Health and Human Services, 11 Aug 2025: BRAIN CONNECTS: LIGHT MICROSCOPY FOR CELL-TYPE SPECIFIC MESOSCALE TO NANOSCALE DENSE CONNECTOMICS - PROJECT SUMMARY IN RECENT YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN REMARKABLE P
Questions and answers
How much federal money does Allen Institute receive?
$266M in award obligations over the fiscal years it is listed for (FY2023: $68M; FY2024: $60M; FY2025: $77M; FY2026: $61M). Years not listed were under the $1.0M floor. Obligations are binding commitments, not payments made.
Which agencies award to Allen Institute?
By the value of $1.0M-plus awards begun since FY2023: Department of Health and Human Services ($70M) and National Science Foundation ($2.2M).
What is the money for?
Assistance falls under Mental Health Research Grants (93.242), Trans-NIH Research Support (93.310) and Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health (93.286).
Where is the work performed?
Primary places of performance for its larger awards: WA ($72M).
Is Allen Institute a large federal recipient?
It ranks 2,462 of 30,000 organisations on this site by five-year obligations and 50 of 622 located in WA. The site covers organisations with at least $1.0M in a fiscal year; individuals are excluded.
Where does this data come from?
USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury), award transactions as loaded on 30 Sep 2026; fiscal-year totals via the spending-by-category endpoint and award lists via the award search endpoint. The USAspending recipient profile is the authoritative record.
Provenance
Source: USAspending.gov API v2 (U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service), CC0. Fiscal-year obligations from the spending-by-category recipient ranking by recipient state (listing floor $1.0M per year); awards from the award search endpoint (new awards of $1.0M or more by base obligation date); parent and business categories from the recipient profile where fetched. Closed fiscal years are snapshots taken after year end; FY2027 is refreshed on each build. Data loaded by USAspending on 30 Sep 2026. Individuals and sole proprietors are excluded at ingest. Errors in processing are corrected at the next build; see corrections and the methodology.