· Private foundation
Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of DONALD W & MARGARET M ANDERSON FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $490k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $678k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $125,000 |
| AGRACE HOSPICECARE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| HOLOMAU GROUP | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT FOUNDATION - DEPT OF MULTI-CULTURAL STUDENT | $80,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $75,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $75,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART | $52,800 |
| OPERATION FRESH START | $50,000 |
| MAUI MEDIC HEALERS HUI | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MSU MANKATO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| LITTLE EAGLE ARTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 89% of Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS6× · 2020–2025 · $376k · revenue +26%
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE6× · 2020–2025 · $243k · revenue +35%
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INC6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SCSONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECTone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -53%
- MBMOON BEAR WILDLIFE SANCTUARYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SASAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY DELVELOPMENT CORPORATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -25%
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 minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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.
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…
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
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,…
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is John Burch Park Supporters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 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. 58 of the 94 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 Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds LITTLE EAGLE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECT ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LOKAHI PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds Living Pono Project ↗
- Who funds KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY DELVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Hooper Corp Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Jpc Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc
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 Donald W & Margaret M 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.