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Anderson Family Foundation at a glance

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Anderson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
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 2021.

Religion$1.2MHealth$283kFood & Nutrition$126kPhilanthropy$100kRecreation & Sports$40kEducation$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Foundation$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Maricopa Health Foundation: $200k → 11%Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Foundation: $25k → 9%Saint Andrews Abbey: $30k → 14%American Heart Association Inc: $25k → 14%Naples Children & Education Foundation Inc: $100k → 10%United Cerebral Palsy Association of Central AZ: $3k → 11%Sonoma County Fair Fondation: $10k → 9%American Heart Association Inc: $15k → 14%FIRST INSTITUTIONAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 11%Sonoma County Fair Fondation: $10k → 9%St Marys Food Bank: $5k → 11%Sonoma County Fair Fondation: $10k → 9%St Francis Xavier Parish: $750k → 11%Sonoma County Fair Fondation: $10k → 9%Roosevelt School District: $10k → 11%Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation: $116k → 9%St Francis Xavier Parish: $375k → 11%Redwood Empire Food Bank: $5k → 9%Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Foundation: $15k → 9%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+73%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SF
    St Francis Xavier Parish
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue -78%
  • SR
    Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2018–2021 · $40k

Funded once

  • VH
    VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +287%
  • SV
    SONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $116k · revenue -90%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +73%
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
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
Valley Vision

Valley vision is a civic leadership organization dedicated to improving the livability of the sacramento region. through research and action, we collaborate on bold, long-term solutions that improve people's lives.

Community Improvement
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Sierra Harvest

Founded in 2007, sierra harvest is building a community that values and eats an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal food; training successful local farmers that are increasing sustainable food production; and creating equitable access to…

Food & Nutrition
7
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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9
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

The food bank of contra costa and solano (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975. the food bank was established in order to efficiently gather, warehouse, and distribute food products to contra costa county charities meeting…

Food & Nutrition
10
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
11
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Francis Xavier Parish: $1,125,000 · OtherSt Francis Xavier ParishSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION: $116,300 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION+5 more: $84,000 · Other+5 moreVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEAL…American Heart Association Inc: $40,000 · HealthAmerican Heart …NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,325,300Health$240,000Philanthropy$110,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION: $116,300 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
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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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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