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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.

$442k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$247k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$332kHuman Services$181kEducation$73kInternational$26kFood & Nutrition$1kHealth$200
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $397k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$246,745
INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS$150,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$25,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$10,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$5,000
SHARING & CARING HANDS$5,000
SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$200
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%WINGS FOR WINDOWS: $25k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $200 → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 3 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$363k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • CC
    CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $322k
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • WF
    WINGS FOR WIDOWS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -33%
  • ST
    ST THERESE CHURCH OF DEEPHAVEN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
3
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
4
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
5
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
8
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

—
9
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

—
11
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
12
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $321,745 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $150,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND: $50,000 · OtherST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND+2 more: $15,000 · OtherWINGS FOR WIDOWS: $25,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $26,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $15,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $2,500 · EducationFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalCOTTAGEWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$536,745Human Services$30,200Health$26,000Education$17,500International$1,000Recreation & Sports$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 budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FOR WIDOWS: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTAGEWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $200 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 13 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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