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Eric Anderson Foundation

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.

$274k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Eric Anderson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$274k0%
FY202316$222k6%
FY202220$241k35%
FY20216$115k67%
FY202015$310k27%
FY201919$173k47%
FY201815$167kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$600kInternational$503kFood & Nutrition$140kSocial Science$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$96kEducation$35kArts & Culture$18kAnimals$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CA
CO
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$155,00050%
The Climate Center$145,00071%
Action Against Hunger - USA$100,00060%
World Central Kitchen Inc$96,00040%
Northwest Harvest Emm$90,00060%
The Clear Fund$80,00030%
Climate Solutions$75,00040%
Water for People$70,00050%
350org$65,00050%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$55,00040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eric Anderson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Center: $145,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAction Against Hunger - USA: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $96,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Solutions: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWater for People: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget350org: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamilyworks: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSightline Institute: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFuturewise: $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSonoma Land Trust: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPath: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Children's Trust: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Reyes Bird Observatory: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRainforest Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentrum Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Energy Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Drawdown: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Folklife: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Partners For Development: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSebastiani Theatre Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Seattle FoundationWA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · McNabb Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

Compare Eric Anderson Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Eric Anderson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eric Anderson Foundation 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.

About Eric Anderson Foundation

How much does Eric Anderson Foundation give?
Eric Anderson Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $273,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Eric Anderson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (40%), International (33%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Eric Anderson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($155k), The Climate Center ($145k), Action Against Hunger - USA ($100k).
Does Eric Anderson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Eric Anderson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eric Anderson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Impactassetsinc, McNabb Foundation.
Where is Eric Anderson Foundation based?
Eric Anderson Foundation is based in WA.

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 40 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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