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Anderson Childrens Foundation at a glance

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Anderson Childrens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
107
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$2.5MHuman Services$1.4MYouth Development$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.2MHealth$1.2MReligion$458kEnvironment$306kOther$0
02FY2024 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE D$50,000
FIND FOOD BANK$50,000
RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY AND OBSERVATO$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCH$47,685
NICKERSON-ROSSI DANCE COMPANY$47,500
ABOUT FAMILIES INC$47,000
RAICES CULTURA$45,483
TESORO CLUB$40,504
SEA VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$40,000
GALILEE CENTER$40,000
DESERT HOT SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOC$38,500
MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN$38,000
PALMS TO PINES PARASPORTS$35,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GALILEE CENTER: $40k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $40k → 11%THE GALILEE CENTER: $20k → 11%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%THE GALILEE CENTER: $20k → 11%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $8k → 14%THE GALILEE CENTER: $20k → 11%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE GALILEE CENTER: $20k → 11%THE GALILEE CENTER: $19k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $25k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $25k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $15k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $50k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $34k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE: $34k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $49k → 11%DESERT ABILITY CENTER: $11k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $9k → 11%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES OF DES: $10k → 11%WELL IN THE DESERT: $15k → 11%THE WELL IN THE DESERT: $7k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $36k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $35k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $34k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $33k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $26k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $20k → 11%ANGEL VIEW: $16k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $47k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $39k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $38k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $34k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $30k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN INC: $26k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $25k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN INC: $21k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN INC: $20k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $14k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $31k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $30k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $20k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $15k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $12k → 11%DESERT ABILITY CENTER: $10k → 11%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $8k → 11%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 184 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

184 repeat relationships: 86 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
90

Total granted

$11M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

43%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AV
    Angel View Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $199k · revenue +30%
  • OC
    OLIVE CREST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $184k · revenue +158%
  • OS
    OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $183k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BS
    BARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN'S CTR AT E
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CO
    City of Desert Hot Springs
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
2
Coachella Youth Sports Association

sportsmanship and eduacation

Recreation & Sports
3
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
—
4
Desert Spring Community Resource Center
Public Benefit
5
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
7
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
8
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
9
Coachella Valley Foster Kids

In 2019 the juvenile dependency attorneys in indio formed coachella valley foster kids. we represent on average 1200 to 1500 youths in the foster system. these kids have either been permanently removed from their parents, or are in the…

Youth Development
10
Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation

The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.

Arts & Culture
11
Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert

The children's discovery museum of the desert is a valuable community resource for children and families to experience the joy of learning about themselves and the world around them. the museum inspires personal growth by engaging…

Arts & Culture
12
Literary Society of the Desert

The literary society of the desert is a non-profit organization promoting literacy and the love of reading through presentations by (and discussions with) leading authors, as well as promoting literacy, writing skills, and the love of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; the most unlike its peers is Tesoro Club. 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

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 294 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/121
Grantees still filing
83/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+144 more: $7,290,585 · Other+144 moreAngel View Inc: $198,906 · Human ServicesAngel View I…OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $183,140 · Human ServicesOPERATION SA…GALILEE CENTER INC: $181,500 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENT…ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $161,910 · Human ServicesABOUT FAMILI…MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $129,940 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VIL…COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $118,636 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VA…FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $92,873 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA …MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $58,197 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $48,000 · Human Services+3 more: $81,387 · Human Services+3 moreOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $76,496 · Arts & CultureACADEMY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: $74,870 · Arts & CultureDESERT ART CENTER INC: $73,247 · Arts & CultureGreen Room Theatre Company: $72,800 · Arts & CultureDesert Theatreworks: $64,600 · Arts & CultureDIGICOM LEARNING: $63,116 · Arts & CulturePalm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert: $61,760 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $58,144 · Arts & CulturePALM CANYON THEATER: $51,825 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOC: $50,316 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS PLAYTIME PRODUCTIONS: $46,240 · Arts & CultureFUTURENOMIC RESOURCES INCORPORATED: $35,782 · Arts & CultureTHE SCRAP GALLERY: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $24,000 · Arts & CultureRAICES CULTURA: $112,233 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE PALM SPRINGS LIBRARY: $87,500 · EducationTHE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL: $84,772 · EducationONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY: $80,990 · EducationTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC: $56,344 · EducationCollege of the Desert Foundation: $37,223 · EducationDESERT PRESCHOOL ACADEMY: $33,154 · EducationRANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY & OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTheresa A Mike Scholarship Foundation: $30,000 · EducationPalm Springs Cultural Center: $29,764 · EducationRead With Me Volunteer Programs: $27,500 · EducationWE CAN FISH INCORPORATED: $22,640 · Education+2 more: $40,696 · EducationOLIVE CREST: $184,000 · HealthChildrens Services of the Desert: $170,000 · HealthFOUNDATION THINKAGAIN: $40,000 · HealthAutism Society Inland Empire Inc: $34,535 · HealthOSTEOPATHY'S PROMISE TO CHILDREN: $23,103 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthEDGE FOUNDATION: $18,900 · HealthPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY: $153,500 · Recreation & SportsPALMS TO PINES PARASPORTS: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsSEIDEN-JUKU: $77,540 · Recreation & SportsBLACKHAWK BOOSTERS: $64,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP OF CHAMPIONS A&M INC: $44,200 · Recreation & SportsThe Socal Coyotes Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsJewish Sunshine Circle: $210,821 · ReligionTESORO CLUB: $154,636 · Religion
Other$7,290,585Human Services$1,254,489Arts & Culture$788,196Education$672,816Health$490,538Recreation & Sports$478,240Religion$365,457

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Sunshine Circle: $210,821 over 7y, 17% of budgetAngel View Inc: $198,906 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $184,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $183,140 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC: $181,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetChildrens Services of the Desert: $170,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetABOUT FAMILIES INC: $161,910 over 6y, 30% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $161,207 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetDESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION: $160,283 over 6y, 41% of budgetTESORO CLUB: $154,636 over 6y, 13% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY: $153,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetThe Coachella Valley Housing Coalition: $145,590 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $129,940 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $118,636 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRAICES CULTURA: $112,233 over 4y, 25% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $104,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAssistance League Coachella Valley: $101,655 over 7y, 13% of budgetBIRTH CHOICE OF THE DESERT: $94,680 over 4y, 16% of budgetPUEBLO UNIDO CDC: $94,300 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $92,873 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPALMS TO PINES PARASPORTS: $90,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PALM SPRINGS LIBRARY: $87,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetTHE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL: $84,772 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY: $80,990 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAnimal Samaritans: $78,728 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE DES: $78,725 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSEIDEN-JUKU: $77,540 over 4y, 15% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $76,496 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetACADEMY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: $74,870 over 4y, 17% of budgetDESERT ART CENTER INC: $73,247 over 4y, 10% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute: $73,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Room Theatre Company: $72,800 over 4y, 14% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $69,415 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $66,207 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDesert Theatreworks: $64,600 over 3y, 10% of budgetDIGICOM LEARNING: $63,116 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetPalm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert: $61,760 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL: $61,120 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKINGS SCHOOLS OF THE DESERT: $59,565 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $58,197 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $58,144 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHADOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $57,338 over 4y, 42% of budgetTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC: $56,344 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT: $56,100 over 3y, 11% of budgetRED HOT BALLROOM INC: $52,136 over 3y, 48% of budgetPALM CANYON THEATER: $51,825 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Palm Springs: $50,836 over 4y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds Jewish Sunshine Circle ↗
  • Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GALILEE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Services of the Desert ↗
  • Who funds ABOUT FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds DESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TESORO CLUB ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds RAICES CULTURA ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League Coachella Valley ↗
  • Who funds BIRTH CHOICE OF THE DESERT ↗
  • Who funds PUEBLO UNIDO CDC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
  • Who funds PALMS TO PINES PARASPORTS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PALM SPRINGS LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE DES ↗

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.

Inland Empire Communi…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…HN and Frances C Berg…Regional Access Proje…The Grace Helen Spear…The Coeta and Donald …The Champions Volunte…The Auen FoundationHouston Family Founda…Impact Through Golf F…Desert Community Foun…The Galen Family Foun…
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA108.8× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Auen Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation

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 Anderson Childrens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anderson Childrens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 294 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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