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Anspar Foundation at a glance

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Anspar 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$179kCivil Rights$153kScience & Tech$127kPhilanthropy$28kFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$22kHealth$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$6,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREPANY HOUSE$15,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$10,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,300
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FND$5,000
CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC$2,368
CRASH SPACE$1,096
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 10 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$822k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    Secular Coalition for America Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +2%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +29%
  • EF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • PI
    PUBLIC INTEREST PATENT LAW INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -61%
  • UC
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
    one grant, 2022 · $49k
  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue +31%
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
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Association for Computing Machinery Inc

We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.

Science & Tech
5
Electronic Privacy Information Center

Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.

Civil Rights
6
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
7
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
8
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
9
Commoncrawl Foundation
Science & Tech
10
Technology Policy Institute
International
11
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Puvungna. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $467,320 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK: $48,684 · OtherUNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORKIndividual grant recipient: $43,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA C: $35,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherFAITH FOODBANK: $25,000 · Other+10 more: $54,275 · Other+10 moreSecular Coalition for America Inc: $135,000 · Civil RightsSecular Coalit…PUBLIC INTEREST PATENT LAW INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Science & TechPUBLIC INT…COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $47,569 · Science & TechCOLLABORAT…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $43,250 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $7,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTREPANY HOUSE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $3,504 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $2,368 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUVUNGNA: $10,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$699,179Civil Rights$135,000Science & Tech$97,569Education$85,250Philanthropy$27,500Arts & Culture$25,872Community Improvement$10,000Human Services$10,000

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 budgetSecular Coalition for America Inc: $135,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST PATENT LAW INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $47,569 over 4y, 19% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $43,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeminist Frequency: $15,400 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTREPANY HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $3,504 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $2,368 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Software Foundation Inc: $500 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.

Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Anspar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anspar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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 30 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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