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Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$60k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of East Africa Foundation$10,00012%

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About Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation

How much does Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation give?
Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are International (100%).
Who are Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: Friends of East Africa Foundation ($10k).
Does Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation based?
Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation is based in MN.

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 1 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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