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Edward L Anderson Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.0MArts & Culture$703kHuman Services$447kEducation$209kHousing & Shelter$180kReligion$60kCommunity Improvement$32kAnimals$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $262k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE$165,000
ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL$96,900
EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE)$30,000
NAPA HIGH CORAL BOOSTERS$10,000
FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO)$10,000
HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
INCLUSIVE ARTS ALLIANCE$2,000
HAWASSA HOPE$2,000
CAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$1,260
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $219k → 9%NAPA HIGH CORAL BOOSTERS: $10k → 9%NATOMAS ARTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $32k → 12%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $20k → 9%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $165k → 18%THE ART & SCIENCE OF ANIMAL TRAINING: $15k → 8%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%THE PERLAN PROJECT: $25k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $132k → 9%NATOMAS ARTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29k → 12%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $11k → 9%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $135k → 18%THE ART & SCIENCE OF ANIMAL TRAINING: $15k → 8%SHIRLEY'S PLACE CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY: $30k → 14%THE PERLAN PROJECT: $20k → 8%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $103k → 9%NATOMAS ARTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $10k → 9%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $130k → 18%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $101k → 9%NATOMAS ARTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%OLINO: $10k → 9%CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $129k → 18%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 9%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $10k → 9%CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION: $122k → 18%SHIRLEY'S PLACE CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY: $30k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $97k → 9%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $10k → 9%CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $120k → 18%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $84k → 9%FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION PROJECT (FORMERLY OLINO): $10k → 9%CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $115k → 18%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $77k → 9%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $60k → 18%EVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $30k → 14%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $25k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $20k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $20k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $12k → 18%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
DC
HI
AL
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 24 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
10

Total granted

$2.6M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+8%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CI
    CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $494k · revenue +98%
  • NA
    NATOMAS ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $96k · revenue +12%
  • FO
    Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project
    6× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +569%

Funded once

  • CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $122k · revenue +32%
  • O
    OLINO
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TB
    The Birth Monopoly Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
3
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
4
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
9
Davis Education Association

The association continued to provide training and informative conventions in order to benefit the members of the association.

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10
Center for Arts Design and Social Research Incorporated

The center for arts, design and social research is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education that provides instruction in and conducts research on the relationship of art and design to global societies. the center offers…

Education
11
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Institution; the most unlike its peers is The Birth Monopoly 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

22 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. 22 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $911,875 · EnvironmentECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONALFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project: $70,500 · EnvironmentFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Proj…CHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLE: $436,613 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA DANCE CIRCLEEVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLEY'S PLACE): $180,000 · OtherEVERYONE HOME DC (FORMERLY SHIRLE…SHIRLEY'S PLACE CAPITOL HILL GROUP MINISTRY: $60,000 · OtherSHIRLEY'S PLACE CAPITOL HILL GROU…NAPA HIGH CORAL BOOSTERS: $40,000 · OtherCURRENT DEVELOPMENTS INC: $31,595 · Other+14 more: $59,458 · Other+14 moreCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $493,924 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTIONHINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDAVIS SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,513 · Arts & CultureNATOMAS ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $95,800 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $19,891 · EducationDAVIS SCHOOLS ORCHESTRAL MUSIC ASSN: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $1,841 · EducationCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $122,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PERLAN PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Science & TechART AND SCIENCE OF ANIMAL TRAINING: $30,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsAmigos de las Americas: $5,094 · InternationalHawassa Hope Inc: $2,000 · International
Environment$982,375Other$807,666Arts & Culture$543,437Education$162,532Philanthropy$122,000Science & Tech$45,000Animals$31,000International$7,094

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $911,875 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $493,924 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $122,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATOMAS ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $95,800 over 4y, 14% of budgetFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project: $70,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE PERLAN PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetART AND SCIENCE OF ANIMAL TRAINING: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBF SKINNER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $19,891 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS SCHOOLS ORCHESTRAL MUSIC ASSN: $15,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTEACH ANOTHER LANGUAGE TO KIDS: $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $5,094 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENCE ART GALLERY: $3,513 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHawassa Hope Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,841 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCACHE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY RANCH FFA ALUMNI FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA: $103 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.

  • Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATOMAS ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ART AND SCIENCE OF ANIMAL TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BF SKINNER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS SCHOOLS ORCHESTRAL MUSIC ASSN ↗
  • Who funds TEACH ANOTHER LANGUAGE TO KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Amigos de las Americas ↗
  • Who funds The Birth Monopoly Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PENCE ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds Hawassa Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds CACHE CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY RANCH FFA ALUMNI FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Edward L Anderson Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward L Anderson Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edward L Anderson Jr Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edward L Anderson Jr 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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