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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$52,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$330,000
LEGACY LEARNING CENTER INC$52,000
GOOD SAMARITAN - ONE MISSION SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOUNDATION OF HOPE: $5k → 11%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $10k → 24%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $10k → 7%PROJECT SWEET PEAS: $10k → 7%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 29 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
23

Total granted

$1.4M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+33%

Still filing today

66%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $655k · revenue +6%
  • LL
    LEGACY LEARNING CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $237k · revenue +84%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • SH
    SHRINER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -11%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION - MN
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
2
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
3
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
4
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
5
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
6
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
7
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
8
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
12
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $655,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYLEGACY LEARNING CENTER INC: $237,000 · EducationLEGACY LEARNING CENTER INCGOOD SAMARITAN - ONE MISSION SOCIETY: $40,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN - ONE MIS…DOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS: $30,000 · OtherDOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERSIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL - SHAUKAT KHANUM MEMORIAL CANCER HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL…GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $20,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF IN…SHRINER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · OtherSTART EARLY (FORMERLY THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND): $15,000 · OtherZAKAT FUND: $15,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION - MN: $13,000 · OtherInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $18,500 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DI…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $14,000 · Other+22 more: $121,000 · Other+22 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $10,000 · HealthFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesProject Sweet Peas: $20,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR REAL: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SMILE INC: $30,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $10,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EnvironmentGood Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc: $14,000 · PhilanthropyOPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT: $7,500 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$892,000Other$336,500Health$95,000Human Services$70,000International$70,000Environment$40,000Philanthropy$26,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 FoundationLamb Weston Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…The US Charitable Gif…The Chicago Community…Network for GoodGe Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home