How much did JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $29k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$376k

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$100,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$11,000
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES$6,000
AM SHALOM$5,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$3,000
CAMP GAN ISRAEL$2,300
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$1,800
FOCUS INC$1,000
JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION$1,000
ANIXTER CENTER - CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY DIVISION$1,000
GPF FOUNDATION$1,000
HELPING HANDS NETWORK$1,000
SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$1,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 73% of JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER 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, 92% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$805k · 26 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$805k

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+16%

Still filing today

50%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

JC
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES
8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +4%
JW
JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +64%
NS
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC
3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +305%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCES
one grant, 2022 · $6k
BF
BOCA FIDE
one grant, 2019 · $5k
DE
DON'T EVEN GIVE UP INC
one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Israel Appeal Inc

Uia is responsible for the allocation and oversight of funds raised by the united states jewish federation campaigns expended in israel by the jewish agency for israel.

International

Jewish Community Foundation of

Philanthropic asset management and grantmaking to both jewish and secular charitable organizations.

Philanthropy

Chicago Center for Jewish

The Norton & Elaine Sarnoff Center for Jewish Genetics is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and Jewish genetic disorders. Working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated individuals,…

Health

Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Centers Endowment

The foundation was organized exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish community centers of chicago, a not-for-profit organization.

Human Services

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.

Health

National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation serves as custodian of the detroit jewish community's assets. the foundation is committed to preserving and growing the assets to meet the community's long term needs.

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Promote a culture of philanthropy, leverage resources to meet local and global jewish needs and facilitate community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Family and Children's Service

To support people of all backgrounds to reach their full potential.

Human Services

Foundation for Jewish

The organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks, accepts,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocate Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beacon Health System Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

11%

7,683/72,328

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.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

19/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$470,605Philanthropy$277,950Youth Development$61,700Education$20,300Arts & Culture$16,900Health$10,250Crime & Legal$7,000

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of MetropolitanIL23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JCCC FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~80 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363738061 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JCCC FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 80 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to James and Lesley Anixter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James and Lesley Anixter Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James and Lesley Anixter Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JAMES AND LESLEY ANIXTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James and Lesley Anixter Foundation?

More from the funding graph