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Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable 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.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$126kReligion$122kHuman Services$107kEducation$59kCivil Rights$48kYouth Development$42kInternational$39kPublic Benefit$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATELINE CHURCH$15,000
ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS$10,000
ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS$6,000
REDEEMER CHURCH$5,000
TRUE THE VOTE INC$5,000
ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$5,000
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$4,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD$4,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$4,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS$4,000
FREEDOM ALLIANCE$3,600
SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS$3,200
MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION$3,200
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 (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $5k → 15%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $1k → 15%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $1k → 15%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $1k → 15%ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $800 → 15%LAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $1k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $1k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $1k → 15%MILESTONE INC: $800 → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID SOCIETY: $3k → 15%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $1k → 15%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $1k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $1k → 15%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $1k → 15%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $1k → 15%ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY: $500 → 15%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

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$663k · 63 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
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Total granted

$663k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthCivil RightsReligionOther
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

  • AG
    ANDERSON GARDENS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +124%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +83%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • TB
    THE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -88%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY LEE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
4
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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5
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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7
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
8
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
12
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cast Water Safety 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

68 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. 68 of the 97 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
50/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATELINE CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherSTATELINE CHURCHDIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERAN SERV FEDCAP-FEMALE SUPPORT: $27,750 · OtherDIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERAN SERV FEDCAP-FEMALE SUPPORTROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $25,000 · OtherROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSSALVATION ARMY WINNEBAGO COUNTY: $24,975 · OtherSALVATION ARMY WINNEBAGO COUNTYTURNING POINT USA INC: $22,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $16,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD: $15,500 · OtherFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $18,100 · Other+56 more: $224,595 · Other+56 moreANDERSON GARDENS: $101,927 · EnvironmentANDERSON GARDENSFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $9,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE BOU…+3 more: $9,200 · Environment+3 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $16,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationINDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $8,800 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,500 · Human ServicesCARPENTER'S PLACE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesMILESTONE INC: $3,800 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $2,800 · Human ServicesFIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $2,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $13,000 · Civil RightsTRUE THE VOTE INC: $9,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $4,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18,700 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $2,500 · ReligionILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $1,000 · ReligionAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $1,000 · ReligionMISS CARLY'S INC: $9,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$449,420Environment$120,127Education$50,500Human Services$38,400Civil Rights$27,500Religion$23,200Food & Nutrition$20,300

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 budgetANDERSON GARDENS: $101,927 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $18,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMISS CARLY'S INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY: $8,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc: $8,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBattle Tested Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetROCK HOUSE KIDS: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCARPENTER'S PLACE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF ROCKFORD: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $3,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD REACHOUT JAIL MINISTRY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds ANDERSON GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds STATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
  • Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Battle Tested Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE 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.

Tracy E Anderson Charitable FoundationIL93.9× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Ahlstrand Family 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 Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable 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.

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 97 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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