· Private foundation
John W Anderson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $330k
- $10k–50k106 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $4,380,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $520,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES GARY | $400,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $275,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES | $275,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MICHIGAN CITY | $210,000 |
| CROSSROADS YMCA | $200,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $175,000 |
| TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC | $175,000 |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $150,000 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA DBA CENTER FOR POSSIBILITIES | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
328 repeat relationships — 204 still active in FY2024, 124 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +205% · 47% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +77% · 28% of their budget
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (PEDIATRIC RESEARCH)one grant, 2019 · $500k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $175k
- SASALVATION ARMY OF LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lets Talk About It Lets Do It Community Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
213 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 213 of the 374 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPAGNA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Hobart Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PORTAGE TOWNSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds St Jude House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lake Area United Way Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In · Early Learning Indiana 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 organization John W Anderson 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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