Indiana · Private foundation
John W Anderson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 212
- Grants FY2025
- 213
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,560,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 213 to 237
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $359M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations John W Anderson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 205 | $14M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 213 | $13M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 216 | $13M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 216 | $15M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 230 | $11M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 235 | $11M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 237 | $11M | 6% |
| FY2018 | 232 | $11M | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc | $32,288,500 | 8 | 47% |
| United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc | $3,875,000 | 9 | 28% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $3,875,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake Area United Way Inc | $2,000,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Crossroads YMCA Inc | $1,970,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Opportunity Enterprises Inc | $1,850,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $1,846,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc | $1,425,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc | $1,150,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc | $1,100,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 232 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 151 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John W Anderson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About John W Anderson Foundation
- How much does John W Anderson Foundation give?
- John W Anderson Foundation reported 212 grants totaling $14,007,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 213 and 237 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John W Anderson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (40%), Education (14%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are John W Anderson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc ($32M), United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc ($3.9M), Indiana University Foundation ($3.9M).
- Does John W Anderson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John W Anderson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John W Anderson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Porter County Community Foundation Inc, Nisource Charitable Foundation, Legacy Foundation Inc.
- Where is John W Anderson Foundation based?
- John W Anderson Foundation is based in IN.
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