--- title: TIME100 Philanthropy: Tonya Allen description: Find out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list. canonical: https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-05-14T12:02:19.311Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-14T12:02:19.432Z article:section: TIME100 og:title: TIME100 Philanthropy: Tonya Allen og:description: Find out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list og:url: https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bb6901ad6449ff5/69fe3fb50dc16f408be15666/t100-philanthropy-Tonya_Allen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y14.77 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Philanthropy: Tonya Allen og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME100 Philanthropy: Tonya Allen twitter:description: Find out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bb6901ad6449ff5/69fe3fb50dc16f408be15666/t100-philanthropy-Tonya_Allen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y14.77 --- May 14, 2026 # Tonya Allen > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. Defending the right to give by Nandita Raghuram  Michelle’s Portrait Design Tonya Allen, president of Minnesota’s McKnight Foundation, has emerged as one of the most vocal defenders of both the philanthropic sector and the communities it serves. Last year, in response to the federal threats to investigate foundations and nonprofits, Allen—along with MacArthur Foundation’s John Palfrey and Freedom Together's Deepak Bhargava—[led](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-advance-philanthropy-coalition-launches-solidarity-campaign/) a solidarity campaign defending the right to give [freely](https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/rising-wave-of-funders-and-psos-stand-up-for-the-first-amendment-freedom-to-give). More than 700 organizations have since signed the statement of support. More recently, following the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, McKnight deployed $5 million in emergency response funding, with another $13 million in the pipeline. The money is going toward small businesses, constitutional observers, mutual aid groups, and supporting people who say they are afraid to go to work due to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and are thus [at risk](https://www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/mcknight-foundation-deploys-2-6-million-to-keep-minnesota-families-housed-amid-operation-metro-surge-fallout/) of losing their housing. “Our community was under siege,” Allen says. “We had the capability and the resources to both listen to them and to quickly get resources to them.” At the time, Allen wrote in an [op-ed](https://www.philanthropy.com/opinion/philanthropy-must-stand-up-for-minneapolis-and-our-country/) for the _Chronicle of Philanthropy_ that foundations must step up when the federal government “has clearly crossed a red line.” Expanding on that in an interview with TIME, she explains that philanthropy doesn’t have the luxury of neutrality. “This is a time for us to get out of our comfort zone and spend more resources and then make sure those resources are hitting the communities that need those dollars the most,” she says. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/"},"headline":"Tonya Allen","datePublished":"2026-05-14T12:02:19.311Z","dateModified":"2026-05-14T12:02:19.432Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/","keywords":["list","franchise","Accolades","Magazine","Philanthropy 2026"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bb6901ad6449ff5/69fe3fb50dc16f408be15666/t100-philanthropy-Tonya_Allen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y14.77&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nandita Raghuram"}],"creator":"Nandita Raghuram","articleSection":"TIME100","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bb6901ad6449ff5/69fe3fb50dc16f408be15666/t100-philanthropy-Tonya_Allen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y14.77&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/time100/","name":"TIME100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-philanthropy/2026/tonya-allen/","name":"Tonya Allen"}}]}] ```