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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of ANDERSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $488k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER IS LIFE KENYA | $75,000 |
| HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $55,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $50,000 |
| A&K PHILANTHROPY | $50,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE | $50,000 |
| LIDE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WATER IS LIFE KENYA | $50,000 |
| WATER IS LIFE KENYA | $50,000 |
| WATER IS LIFE KENYA | $40,000 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| HLANGANANI ORPHAN CARE | $25,000 |
| REYKJAVIK GLOBAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $25,000 |
| EDUARDO TRICIO GOMEZ FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HEHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM5× · 2021–2025 · $415k · revenue +44%
- DFDays For Girls International3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +45%
- TTEAMWOMENMN3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MFMONA FOUNDATION 91-1968512one grant, 2020 · $600k
- MFMONA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue +22% · 26% of their budget
- LLIDEone grant, 2024 · $210k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
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…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
Women Empowering Nations provides exposure,development and mentorship for girls of color in underserved communities to accelerate their path to executive leadership.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 74 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
- Who funds IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOICE ↗
- Who funds PRATTHANADEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL KHMER ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DAIRY GIRL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NARRATIVE NATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
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.
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
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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