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Anderson 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$2.6MPhilanthropy$825kHuman Services$206kFood & Nutrition$120kArts & Culture$115kYouth Development$103kEducation$100kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $488k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $480k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATER IS LIFE KENYA$75,000
HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM$55,000
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE$50,000
WATER IS LIFE KENYA$50,000
A&K PHILANTHROPY$50,000
WATER IS LIFE KENYA$50,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$50,000
LIDE FOUNDATION$50,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$50,000
WATER IS LIFE KENYA$40,000
MERCY FOUNDATION$35,000
HLANGANANI ORPHAN CARE$25,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$25,000
REYKJAVIK GLOBAL FOUNDATION$25,000
HELP$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%PRATTAHANADEE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DISTRICT MOTHERHUED: $10k → 14%IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%PRATTHANADEE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%PRATTAHANADEE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE IOWA WOMEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $30k → 17%REBOUND INC: $3k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
MO
DE
AR
TN
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 22 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
26

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+8%

Still filing today

73%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • HE
    HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $415k · revenue +44%
  • DF
    Days For Girls International
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +45%
  • T
    TEAMWOMENMN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MF
    MONA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue +22% · 26% of their budget
  • MF
    MONA FOUNDATION 91-1968512
    one grant, 2020 · $600k
  • L
    LIDE
    one grant, 2024 · $210k
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 Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
2
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
4
Women Empowering Women
Unclassified
5
Womens Executive Alliance
Philanthropy
6
Women Achieving Success
Employment
7
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
8
Women for Women International

In countries affected by conflict and war, women for women international (women for women) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and…

International
9
The Conversationalist
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10
Women Empowering Nations Inc

Women Empowering Nations provides exposure,development and mentorship for girls of color in underserved communities to accelerate their path to executive leadership.

Education
11
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
12
Planet Women

To partner with women to care for the forest, waters, and communities essential to mitigating climate change while preparing women to lead; and to help environmental conservation oganizations to become more diverse and welcoming.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bountifield International. 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

39 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. 39 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
19/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONA FOUNDATION 91-1968512: $600,000 · OtherMONA FOUNDATION 91-1968512WATER IS LIFE KENYA: $225,000 · OtherWATER IS LIFE KENYALIDE: $210,000 · OtherLIDEHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $205,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALLIDE HAITI 47-1715296: $100,000 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Other+41 more: $624,000 · Other+41 moreLIDE HAITI: $765,000 · EducationLIDE HAITIUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $50,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE …MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $35,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $415,000 · InternationalHAITIAN EDUCATION…INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES: $105,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL DEV…BOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 · InternationalBOUNTIFIELD INTER…Days For Girls International: $40,000 · InternationalDays For Girls In…ALIGHT: $25,000 · International+3 more: $30,000 · InternationalMONA FOUNDATION: $600,000 · PhilanthropyMONA FOUNDATIONWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $80,000 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundatio…+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPRATTHANADEE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDISTRICT MOTHERHUED: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTEAMWOMENMN: $37,500 · Community ImprovementDAIRY GIRL NETWORK INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWOMENVENTURE: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$2,054,000Education$855,000International$705,000Philanthropy$695,000Human Services$117,500Arts & Culture$100,000Community Improvement$65,000

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 budgetLIDE HAITI: $765,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $415,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDays For Girls International: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTEAMWOMENMN: $37,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $35,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRATTHANADEE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLEGAL VOICE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALIGHT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDAIRY GIRL NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNARRATIVE NATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENVENTURE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Black Collective Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPositive Image: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRICKS TO BREAD INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREBOUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE IMAGES: $1,000 over 1y, 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 LIDE HAITI ↗
  • Who funds MONA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds WATER IS LIFE KENYA ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
  • Who funds TEAMWOMENMN ↗
  • Who funds IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATTHANADEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL VOICE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL KHMER ASSEMBLY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
  • Who funds DAIRY GIRL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NARRATIVE NATION INC ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…The McKnight Foundati…WK Kellogg FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Joyful Noise Charitab…Mortenson Family Foun…Women's Foundation of…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer Trust
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Joyful Noise Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%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
    3get 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Anderson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Anderson Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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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