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David & Carol Anderson Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $8,212 |
| LIFE NAVIGATORS | $3,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION WI | $2,000 |
| ST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $2,000 |
| SUNSET PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| LUTHER MANOR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $750 |
| OUTREACH FOR HOPE | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL CENTE | $500 |
| WHITEWATER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $500 |
| SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE | $300 |
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 (FY20–20, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +34%
- UFUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +3%
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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 mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.
To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
Alverno college prepares women for lives of personal and professional distinction and meaningful engagement with the world. alverno also extends this mission by offering graduate and adult programs to women and men.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunset Playhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 PARTNERS WITH YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Sunset Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HIGH INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 David & Carol 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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