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David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$167k
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of DAVID & MARY ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2020 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$20,000
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES$20,000
MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL$18,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$15,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WISCONSIN CENTER FOR NURSING$10,000
EDGEWOOD COLLEGE$9,604
MADISON WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER ASSOCIATION$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
ROSEVILLE AREA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$582k · 13 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$582k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-8%

Still filing today

54%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $231k · revenue +39%
  • LM
    LITERACY MINNESOTA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST
    one grant, 2017 · $72k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES MADISON
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AW
    AMIGOS - WI CHAPTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

2
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
3
State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
6
The Uwm Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

8
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

10
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
11
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
12
University of Minnesota Alumni Association

The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is Coffee House Press 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $231,140 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONLITERACY MINNESOTA — $55,500 · EducationLITERACY MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $39,604 · EducationEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST — $71,747 · OtherSECOND HARVESTUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $54,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCAGRACE — $32,000 · OtherAGRACECOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $25,000 · OtherCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INCIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC CHARITIES MADISON — $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES MADISONAMERICAN RED CROSS — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSMWABA — $20,025 · OtherMWABAIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more — $37,804 · Other+12 moreNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $20,000 · Crime & LegalBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $1,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN CENTER FOR NURSING INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Education$381,244Other$335,576Crime & Legal$40,000Philanthropy$21,000Arts & Culture$19,000Human Services$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $231,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY MINNESOTA — $55,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $39,604 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISCONSIN CENTER FOR NURSING INC — $19,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC
  • Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
  • Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CENTER FOR NURSING INC
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
  • Who funds WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 & Mary Anderson Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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