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A Gary Anderson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$3.5MEducation$2.1MYouth Development$385kArts & Culture$360kCrime & Legal$350kHealth$302kInternational$85kRecreation & Sports$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLIVE CREST$500,000
INNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION INC$250,000
OLIVE CREST$200,000
POWER2PARENT$160,000
TARA'S CHANCE$50,000
HORSES 4 HEROES INC$50,000
FREEDOM WRITERS FOUNDATION$25,000
CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER$25,000
FOREVER FOOTPRINTS (ORANGE COUNTY WALK TO REMEMBER)$25,000
SUCCESSFUL SURVIVORS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ACTION IN AFRICA IN$25,000
THE LITERACY PROJECT FOUNDATION$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$15,000
THE JUST ONE PROJECT$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TONYS TREEHOUSE: $5k → 9%CHILDRENS FUND INCORPORATED: $600k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%FOOTPRINTS OF FIGHT: $3k → 9%CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $450k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $18k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%CHILDRENS FUND INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $10k → 14%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $5k → 14%KIDWORKS: $25k → 10%MARY'S PATH: $75k → 10%TONY'S TREEHOUSE: $15k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%TONY'S TREEHOUSE: $10k → 10%TONYS TREEHOUSE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of A Gary Anderson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

A Gary Anderson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 19 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
32

Total granted

$4.9M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

89%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsInternationalCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CHILDREN'S FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +46%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +22%
  • SF
    SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $333k · revenue +13%
  • OC
    OLIVE CREST OF NEVADA
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST RAPE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
2
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
3
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
4
Casa of Los Angeles

Our mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. our vision is a los angeles where every child in the welfare system has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.

Civil Rights
5
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
6
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
7
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandoment.

Civil Rights
8
El Paso Guidance Center Inc dba El Paso Child Guidance Center

Improving the health and well-being of children and families in a safe environment through mental health services, education and awareness.

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9
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
10
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
11
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
12
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDiverse Community ServicesAnimal Rescue and CareCommunity Recreation & Yout…Diverse Community Organizat…Private Grantmaking Foundat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr12%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr10%68%35–55yr12%18%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
16%
16,329/104,503

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
35/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $1,080,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $832,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATIONPOWER2PARENT — $160,000 · EducationPOWER2PARENTThe Freedom Writers Foundation — $125,000 · EducationCREST EDUCATION CENTER — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $85,000 · EducationSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $1,044,100 · OtherSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIESOLIVE CREST OF NEVADA — $300,000 · OtherOLIVE CREST OF NEVADAINNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION INC — $250,000 · OtherINNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION INC+33 more — $409,150 · Other+33 moreCHILDREN'S FUND INC — $1,087,816 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FUND INCMARY'S SHELTER — $75,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTER+11 more — $131,000 · Human Services+11 moreOLIVE CREST — $700,000 · HealthOLIVE CRESTTARAS CHANCE — $50,000 · HealthTARAS CHANCE+10 more — $99,000 · Health+10 moreORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $333,333 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST RAPE — $100,000 · Crime & LegalOUR RESCUE — $360,000 · Arts & CultureACTION IN AFRICA INC — $75,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $15,000 · InternationalFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $10,000 · International
Education$2,382,000Other$2,003,250Human Services$1,293,816Health$849,000Crime & Legal$433,333Arts & Culture$360,000International$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S FUND INC — $1,087,816 over 5y, 14% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $1,080,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $1,044,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $832,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $700,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $360,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $333,333 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPOWER2PARENT — $160,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Freedom Writers Foundation — $125,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST RAPE — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCREST EDUCATION CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetACTION IN AFRICA INC — $75,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHORSES 4 HEROES — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTARAS CHANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTONY'S TREEHOUSE — $35,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPure Game — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPacific Oaks Education Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETES & ENTERTAINERS FOR KIDS — $25,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetONEOC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetI PADRINI DI ANTONELLOS — $15,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProject Get Safe Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA COLINA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEAPS & BOUNDS PEDIATRIC THERAPY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGolden Retreiver Rescue Southern Nevada — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetORANGE COUNTY WALK TO REMEMBER DBA FOREVER FOOTPRINTS — $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUNDAMENTAL HEALTH — $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationJohn H Grace Foundati…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Sisters of St Joseph …In-N-Out Burgers Foun…American Woodmark Fou…Sempra FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Enterprise Holdings F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · John H Grace Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A Gary Anderson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to A Gary Anderson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to A Gary Anderson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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