· Private foundation
Andreas 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k78 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $750k
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES | $1,000,000 |
| MT ZION FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY EDUCATION | $300,000 |
| MATER DEI SCHOOL | $275,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOSPITAL SISTER OF THE THIRD | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL | $200,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMLESS | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $175,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES | $160,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FNDT | $150,000 |
| SCARED HEART SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADOCACY | $125,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC | $120,000 |
| POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $110,000 |
| TSNE MISSIONWORKS | $100,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
204 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2025, 104 since wound down; 48 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $684k 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
- SFSCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +35% · 38% of their budget
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +95%- MDMATER DEI SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +120%
Funded once
- MDMICHAEL D ANDREAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6.1M · revenue -85% · 86% of their budget
- BUBARRY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCYone grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chaddock Childrens Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Soar. 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
210 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. 210 of the 424 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL D ANDREAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MATER DEI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ZION FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ART21 INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Macon County · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · James Millikin Trust A · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Michael D Andreas Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area
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 Andreas 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Cambridge Montessori School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Aging With Dignity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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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