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Kay M Anderson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$179kHealth$162kPublic Benefit$138kPhilanthropy$66kHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$40kRecreation & Sports$27kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF SHENANDOAH PARK$34,500
OUR HOUSE CDC$23,200
SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$12,000
VISION SHENANDOAH$10,000
GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION$9,000
SHENANDOAH MUSIC ASSOCIATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ABIGAIL MARTIN: $2k → 11%SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES: $10k → 13%PAGE CO CONSERVATION: $4k → 13%PAGE CO CONSERVATION: $3k → 13%CITY OF SHENANDOAH: $78k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 13%CITY OF SHENANDOAH PARK: $35k → 13%CITY OF SHENANDOAH: $30k → 13%CITY OF SHENANDOAH: $26k → 13%CITY OF SHENADNOAH PARK AND REC: $25k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 13%OUR HOUSE CDC: $23k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIE: $20k → 13%OUR HOUSE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 13%SHENANDOAH PREGNANCY & RESOURCE CEN: $20k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 13%OUR HOUSE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $16k → 13%SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $12k → 13%VISION SHENANDOAH: $10k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%SHENANDOAH 12 STEP HOUSE: $8k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO: $6k → 13%SHENANDOAH MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $5k → 13%VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $4k → 13%HOLLYS HOPE: $3k → 13%SHENANDOAH MUSIC ASSOC: $3k → 13%SHENANDOAH MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%SHENANDOAH MUSIC ASSN: $3k → 13%SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $3k → 13%LE YUAN SUN: $3k → 13%KATE LANTZ: $3k → 13%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 13%ELKS 1122: $2k → 13%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 13%GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 13%VETRANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 13%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$646k · 74 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
21

Total granted

$646k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-23%

Still filing today

4%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SM
    SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +35%
  • GS
    GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +209%
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE CHILD DEV
    2× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF SHENADNOAH PARK AND REC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • GS
    GREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -82%
  • SP
    SHENANDOAH PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -55%
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
Northwest Iowa Health Center Founda

To encourage and assist sanford sheldon in its activities in providing health care, medical, and educational services to the region.

Philanthropy
2
Shenandoah Foundation
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3
Shenandoah Housing Corporation

To provide housing for low income families.

Housing & Shelter
4
Shenandoah Iowa Education Foundation

Support educational opportunities of students and faculty of the shenandoah community school district

Education
5
Shenandoah County Free Clinic Inc

Bridging gaps in healthcare while providing access to a wide variety of essential services to the whole community.

Health
6
Shenandoah Valley Medical System I

To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.

Health
7
Shenandoah Alliance for Shelter

Support and education of the homeless by providing assistance in the form of grants for rental or other housing assistance.

Human Services
8
Shelby County Health Foundation

Promotion of health care in shelby county iowa

Health
9
Southern Iowa Mental Health Center

Mental health care to those in need

Health
10
Shenandoah County Library Foundation

To provide financial support for the shenandoah county library system.

Education
11
Shenandoah Volunteer Fire Company

Local volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Shenandoah Valley Partnership Inc

The shenandoah valley partnership (svp) works with public and private partners at the local, regional, and state level to develop an economic climate for business success throughout the shenandoah valley. through regional cooperation the…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Our House Child Dev. 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

8 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. 8 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF SHENANDOAH PARKS: $133,500 · OtherCITY OF SHENANDOAH PARKSOUR HOUSE CHILD DEV: $40,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE CHILD DEVCITY OF SHENANDOAH PARK: $34,500 · OtherCITY OF SHENANDOAH PARKCITY OF SHENADNOAH PARK AND REC: $25,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE CDC: $23,200 · Other+92 more: $267,032 · Other+92 moreSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $155,000 · HealthSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTERSHENANDOAH PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · HealthSHENANDOAH PREGNANCY AND …SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC: $10,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES I…GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $74,500 · EducationGREATER SH…GREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVISION SHENANDOAH: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,755 · Philanthropy
Other$523,232Health$185,000Education$74,500Arts & Culture$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$5,755

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $74,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetOUR HOUSE CHILD DEV: $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSHENANDOAH PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetVISION SHENANDOAH: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,755 over 1y, 4.2% 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 SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE CHILD DEV ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VISION SHENANDOAH ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH MEDICAL CENTER 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.

The Cy Rapp and Carolyn Rapp Charitable TrustIA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Kay M Anderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kay M Anderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kay M Anderson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kay M Anderson 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 104 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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