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Brandon Anderson Foundation

The BRANDON ANDERSON FOUNDATION is a unique 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that believes any person has the ability to tap into their greatest potential with the right exposure.

$22k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Civil Rights$88kArts & Culture$29kCrime & Legal$25kYouth Development$21kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$5k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $12,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GETLIT$5,000
SURVIVORS HOPE$4,500
HIP HOP MINDSET$2,500
R FIGHT INC$200
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISION SUPPLY: $8k → 10%GETLIT: $5k → 14%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $25k → 20%NETWORK FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $25k → 11%BLACK GIRLS SMILE: $19k → 13%R FIGHT INC: $200 → 14%SUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $19k → 14%BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%TOMMY THE CLOWN FOUNDATION INC: $19k → 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 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
BlackPush Inc

Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.

Religion
2
Wraparound Enterprises

To advance and protect the Black community in the areas of Health, Health Equity, Mental Health, Social Justice, and Substance Abuse.

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3
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
4
The Black Collaborative Inc
Community Improvement
5
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
6
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
7
Concrete Lyfe

To empower individuals and communities impacted by social injustices through sustainable investment in their livelihoods. we believe in promoting both community and individual development, with a particular focus on those who have been…

Community Improvement
8
Standup for Change

Providing pathways out of poverty through education, employment, and housing services for marginalized youth and their families.

Human Services
9
Black Mental Health & Wellness
Health
10
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
11
The Gryd Foundation

The gryd foundation believes that every youth, regardless of race, gender, or geography, should have the resources, opportunities, and systems to grow up and to lead healthy, fulfilling lives. our mission is to create a safer, healthier…

Youth Development
12
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tommy the Clown Foundation. 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIP HOP MINDSET: $26,250 · OtherHIP HOP MINDSETBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATIONSURVIVORS HOPE: $4,500 · OtherSURVIVORS HOPE+1 more: $200 · OtherBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INCNetwork For Strong Communities Inc: $25,000 · Crime & LegalNetwork For Strong Communities I…SUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $18,750 · Community ImprovementSUMMAEVERYTHANG C…VISION SUPPLY: $7,500 · Community ImprovementVISION SUPPLYTOMMY THE CLOWN FOUNDATION: $18,750 · Youth DevelopmentTOMMY THE CL…BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $18,750 · HealthBLACK GIRLS …GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$55,950Crime & Legal$50,000Community Improvement$26,250Youth Development$18,750Health$18,750Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNetwork For Strong Communities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $18,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $18,750 over 1y, 10% of budgetVISION SUPPLY: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $5,000 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Brandon Anderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brandon Anderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report 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.
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    How do I get to Brandon Anderson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Brandon 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $48k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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