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Anderson Family 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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$530kHuman Services$173kReligion$79kInternational$67kPhilanthropy$50kCommunity Improvement$49kArts & Culture$44kYouth Development$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLBY FUND$18,750
OSHUN FAMILY CENTER$12,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$2,500
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL$1,250
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,250
THE STORE$1,250
ST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH$500
BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE$500
LOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION$250
GLADWYNE FREE LIBRARY$250
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $158k) 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%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $3k → 11%READ GLOBAL: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $360 → 11%READ GLOBAL: $25k → 10%THE STORE: $1k → 14%READ GLOBAL: $25k → 10%READ GLOBAL: $25k → 10%READ GLOBAL: $25k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%READ GLOBAL: $15k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3k → 22%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

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IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$733k · 46 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
19

Total granted

$733k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+31%

Still filing today

63%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +95%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +6%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NK
    New Kensington Community Development Corpgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue +32%
  • PT
    Please Touch Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $31k · revenue +65%
  • SE
    SHARING EXCESSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +160%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gladwyne Free Library. 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

52 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. 52 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $247,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…SALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $50,500 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INCCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLEpiscopal Academy: $35,000 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyTrustees of Tufts College: $22,500 · Education+8 more: $32,325 · Education+8 moreFRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORATION: $81,400 · OtherFRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORATIONBETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION: $50,000 · OtherBETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATIONCOLBY FUND: $38,050 · OtherCOLBY FUNDNew Kensington Community Development Corp: $33,910 · OtherNew Kensington Community Development CorpIndividual grant recipient: $29,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBETH DAVID REFORM SYNAGOGUE: $25,000 · OtherBETH DAVID REFORM SYNAGOGUEFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $15,000 · OtherMOVING TRADITIONS: $20,900 · Other+36 more: $141,580 · Other+36 moreRURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesRURAL EDUCATION…BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $7,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $6,600 · Human Services+3 more: $9,110 · Human Services+3 moreIMPACTISRAEL INC: $36,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $7,500 · InternationalPlease Touch Museum: $31,250 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,600 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $22,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3,580 · PhilanthropySHARING EXCESS: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$432,575Other$435,090Human Services$163,210International$54,300Arts & Culture$43,850Philanthropy$26,380Food & Nutrition$25,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $247,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC: $140,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $50,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $36,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Kensington Community Development Corp: $33,910 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlease Touch Museum: $31,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $22,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $20,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $13,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOSHUN FAMILY CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $6,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: $6,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC: $5,925 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $4,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOLF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDLEWILD TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $2,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY HORSEWORKS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMission Kids: $2,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $2,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLADWYNE FREE LIBRARY: $1,450 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM UP PHILLY: $450 over 3y, 0.1% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds New Kensington Community Development Corp ↗
  • Who funds Please Touch Museum ↗
  • Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds OSHUN FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗

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.

The Neubauer Family F…The Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Hess Foundation IncDaniel M Tabas Family…Hamilton Family Found…United Way of Greater…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wsfs Cares FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…
The Neubauer Family FoundationPA47.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Hess Foundation Inc · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Td Charitable 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 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 75 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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