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Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.6MEducation$786kHuman Services$783kArts & Culture$497kCommunity Improvement$430kHousing & Shelter$391kFood & Nutrition$316kPhilanthropy$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $678k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS$75,000
MAYO CLINIC$75,000
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART$52,800
OPERATION FRESH START$50,000
DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$40,000
MAUI MEDIC HEALERS HUI$40,000
WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH$30,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SOUTHERN WI$25,000
MSU MANKATO FOUNDATION$25,000
LITTLE EAGLE ARTS FOUNDATION$25,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE: $20k → 17%THE LIVING PONO PROJECT: $30k → 9%MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $25k → 9%THE LIVING PONO PROJECT: $25k → 9%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $20k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $15k → 10%IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 10%FAITH'S LODGE: $25k → 11%VILLAGE DIAPER BANK: $25k → 10%FAITH'S LODGE: $5k → 11%FAITH'S LODGE: $5k → 11%FAITH'S LODGE: $5k → 11%CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
VA
NM
HI
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 89% of Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 4%.

Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 53 repeat orgs$842k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
24

Total granted

$4.9M
$530k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

53%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $376k · revenue +29%
  • BI
    BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $243k · revenue +35%
  • OF
    OPERATION FRESH START INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECT
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -53%
  • MB
    MOON BEAR WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY DELVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -25%
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
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
2
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.

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3
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…

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4
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

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…

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5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

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.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Door County Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
8
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
9
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
10
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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11
Gathering Waters Inc

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…

Environment
12
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; 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.
05the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION - UW INITIATIVE TO END ALZHEIMERS: $570,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION - UW INITIATIVE TO END ALZHEIMERSINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $376,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHOLOMUA GROUP: $305,000 · OtherHOLOMUA GROUPINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART: $202,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT FOUNDATION - DEPT OF MULTI-CULTURAL STUDENT: $185,000 · OtherMAUI MEDIC HEALERS HUI: $140,000 · OtherDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $140,000 · Other+65 more: $2,164,313 · Other+65 moreAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $445,000 · HealthAgrace HospiceC…MAYO CLINIC: $225,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA: $153,000 · HealthTHE GRIEF CLUB …+1 more: $15,000 · HealthBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $243,000 · Community ImprovementLOKAHI PACIFIC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECT: $80,000 · Human ServicesLiving Pono Project: $55,000 · Human ServicesCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE DIAPER BANK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGROVES ACADEMY: $128,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION FRESH START INC: $205,000 · Employment
Other$4,083,113Health$838,000Community Improvement$318,000Human Services$300,000Education$218,000Philanthropy$215,000Employment$205,000

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 budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $445,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $376,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $243,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $205,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA: $153,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $140,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $128,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLITTLE EAGLE ARTS FOUNDATION: $119,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOKAHI PACIFIC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLiving Pono Project: $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC: $39,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPASSAGES A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $37,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSACRED YOUTH FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetOregon Area Food Pantry: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VILLAGE DIAPER BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLAT BROKE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHASTINGS HOCKEY BOOSTERS INC: $16,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORONO HOCKEY BOOSTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
  • Who funds MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • 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 KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOKAHI PACIFIC ↗
  • Who funds Living Pono Project ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Hooper Corp FoundationMadison Gas and Elect…Otto Bremer TrustTrustage Foundation I…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Madison Community Fou…Xcel Energy FoundationHerbert H Kohl Charit…Jpc FoundationVeridian Foundation I…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI30.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald W & Margaret M Anderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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