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Anderson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$193kEducation$49kEnvironment$36kReligion$16kHuman Services$11kAnimals$8kFood & Nutrition$8kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GBMC FOUNDATION INC$30,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$10,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC$8,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
MOTHER SETON ACADEMY INC$2,500
ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,500
CUENCA DE LOS OJOS$2,000
AMES SHALOM COMMUNITY INC$2,000
LAKE ROLAND NATURE COUNCIL INC$1,500
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$1,500
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC$1,500
RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC$1,500
OREGON RIDGE NATURE CENTER COUNCIL$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NICK LIBERATORE MEMORIAL FUND: $2k → 6%BROADMEAD: $1k → 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$319k · 36 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
13

Total granted

$319k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+29%

Still filing today

81%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +40%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +53%
  • Bucknell University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • NL
    NICK LIBERATORE MEMORIAL FUND LIBERATORE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -23%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +5%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
6
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
10
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
12
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nick Liberatore Memorial Fund Liberatore. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Military Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr11%54%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,802

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GBMC FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $37,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION+5 more — $15,000 · Health+5 moreST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH — $10,500 · OtherST ANNE CATHOLIC CH…MOTHER SETON ACADEMY INC — $7,500 · OtherMOTHER SETON ACADEM…MESA GLOBAL — $6,500 · OtherMESA GLOBALAMES SHALOM COMMUNITY INC — $5,000 · OtherAMES SHALOM COMMUNI…ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC — $3,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $2,500 · OtherFeeding America — $2,000 · OtherTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $3,000 · Other+13 more — $13,500 · Other+13 moreBucknell University — $20,000 · EducationBucknell Univ…MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHO…GETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $4,500 · EducationGETTYSBURG CO…CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $3,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOO…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $1,500 · Education+4 more — $3,000 · Education+4 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE…CUENCA LOS OJOS — $2,000 · EnvironmentCUENCA LOS…BLUE WATER BALTIMORE — $1,500 · EnvironmentOREGON RIDGE NATURE CENTER COUNCIL — $1,500 · EnvironmentCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC — $7,500 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,500 · Public BenefitBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $2,000 · AnimalsTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $2,000 · AnimalsREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $1,000 · AnimalsLAKE ROLAND NATURE COUNCIL INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Health$187,500Other$58,000Education$39,000Environment$30,500Public Benefit$9,000Animals$8,000Recreation & Sports$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ROLAND NATURE COUNCIL INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE WATER BALTIMORE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON RIDGE NATURE CENTER COUNCIL — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADMEAD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND HARBOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR UGANDA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY SPIRIT ACADEMY OF MONTICELLO — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …Campbell Foundation I…The Marion I & Henry …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…The Ayco Charitable F…The RCM&D FoundationMiddendorf Foundation…Lockhart Vaughan Foun…Venable Foundation IncThe Kahlert Foundatio…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The RCM&D Foundation · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Anderson Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
7report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Anderson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Anderson Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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