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George and Kathleen Anderson Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

George and Kathleen Anderson Charitable Trust

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.

$650k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$536kAnimals$217kYouth Development$97kHousing & Shelter$77kFood & Nutrition$65kEducation$44kPublic Benefit$41kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k25 grants · $510k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VEDANTA SOCIETY OF PORTLAND OREG$85,000
KROTONA INSTITUTE OF THEOSOPHY$55,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$45,000
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA$40,000
CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL -SCOUTING$35,000
NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT$30,000
PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION$30,000
HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON$25,000
ASPCA$20,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$20,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$20,000
DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC$20,000
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$15,000
HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION$15,000
RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $30k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $27k → 12%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

WA
IL
NY
OR
CA
VA
NC
DC
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 15 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$845k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $97k · revenue +30%
  • TT
    THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN PORTLAND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +275% · 72% of their budget
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • Central City Concerngraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
6
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
10
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Theosophical Society in Portland. 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 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
6/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VEDANTA SOCIETY OF PORTLAND OREG: $192,000 · OtherVEDANTA SOCIETY OF PORTLAND OREGKrotona Institute of Theosophy: $99,500 · OtherKrotona Institute of TheosophyPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $57,000 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONTHE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN PORTLAND: $53,000 · OtherTHE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN PORTLANDTHEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA: $40,000 · OtherTHEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICAUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $31,000 · OtherST AGATHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $29,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $28,500 · OtherOREGON BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $24,000 · Other+10 more: $149,000 · Other+10 moreOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $97,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $54,000 · AnimalsVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCI…DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 · AnimalsDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY …Defenders of Wildlife: $20,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $67,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $57,000 · Human ServicesUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $15,000 · EducationCATO INSTITUTE: $21,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitCentral City Concern: $20,000 · Health
Other$703,000Animals$217,000Youth Development$82,000Human Services$57,000Education$30,000Public Benefit$26,000Health$20,000

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 budgetKrotona Institute of Theosophy: $99,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $97,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $67,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $57,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $54,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN PORTLAND: $53,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetTHEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Oregon Community …United Way of the Col…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 George and Kathleen Anderson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Kathleen Anderson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
  • Northwest Pilot Project: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 32 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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