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Anam Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$392k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$52,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$330,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$4.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Anam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$392k0%
FY20243$315k0%
FY202330$321k13%
FY202234$262k71%
FY202122$208k95%
FY20203$22kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$897kHealth$236kEnvironment$81kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$69kReligion$55kInternational$45kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Anam Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Louis University: $655,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Learning Center Inc: $237,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetThe Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRainforest Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northeast Louisiana Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sweet Peas: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCare for Real: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Illinois: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetImran Khan Cancer Appeal Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Alabama: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOptometry Giving Sight: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFoundation of Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStart Early: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvanston Grows: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGeist Community Center Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Zakat Foundation of America: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirlforward: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AbbVie FoundationIL14.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Network for Good · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Anam Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Anam 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.

About Anam Foundation

How much does Anam Foundation give?
Anam Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $392,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Anam Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (15%), Environment (5%).
Who are Anam Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Louis University ($655k), Legacy Learning Center Inc ($237k), The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital ($50k).
Does Anam Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Anam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Anam Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Anam Foundation based?
Anam Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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