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Beth B Anderson Family Foundation at a glance

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Beth B Anderson Family 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$53kHealth$37kReligion$24kHousing & Shelter$9kEducation$6kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$533k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,000
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE$5,000
FRIENDS OF TN BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS$5,000
OAK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA$5,000
ONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRY$2,500
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500
KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JONI & FRIENDS: $1k → 12%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%OAK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES: $5k → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 10%EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES: $5k → 10%EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 10%YOUNG LIFE: $1k → 12%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES: $3k → 10%PEER ACADEMY: $500 → 12%FRIENDS OF TN BABIES: $3k → 10%CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE: $5k → 12%UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE: $25k → 12%UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE: $20k → 12%UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA RESCUE MININSTRIES: $5k → 12%KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 7 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$168k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+32%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OC
    ONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +234%
  • KA
    KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +119%
  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CRU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • JA
    JONI AND FRIENDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +31%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +62%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
4
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
5
Arkansas Children's Hospital

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
6
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
8
Young Men's Christian Association of East Tennessee Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities. the ymca encourages growth for youth development,…

Human Services
9
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $57,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINCFRIENDS OF TN BABIES: $16,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF TN BABIESOAK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,500 · OtherONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES: $17,500 · ReligionONWARD CAM…FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS O…CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE: $5,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN…+1 more: $500 · EducationKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$132,000Religion$17,500Education$15,500Housing & Shelter$9,000Health$8,500Philanthropy$2,500Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEER ACADEMY: $500 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.

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.

Haslam Family Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Haslam Family Foundation IncTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Beth B Anderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beth B Anderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 Beth B Anderson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Beth B Anderson Family 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 15 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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