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Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr 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.

$4k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Religion$150kCrime & Legal$112kArts & Culture$81kHuman Services$66kEducation$24kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$12kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES TWIN CITIES$4,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMM: $5k → 8%LANESBORO AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%NORTHSTAR COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS: $2k → 11%AFTON PRESS: $5k → 14%STARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%BEREA COLLEGE: $10k → 11%LANESBORO AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%NORTHSTAR COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS: $2k → 11%AFTON PRESS: $5k → 14%STARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%LANESBORO AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%AMICUS: $50k → 11%RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%STARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY: $10k → 10%AMICUS: $50k → 11%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%AMICUS: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $50k → 11%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%AMICUS WEOF FUND: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $3k → 14%AFTON PRESS: $5k → 11%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%AFTON PRESS: $5k → 11%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES TWIN CITIES: $4k → 11%NORTHSTAR COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS: $2k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF FINE ART: $3k → 11%NORTHSTAR COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS: $2k → 14%OPEN EYE THEATRE: $3k → 11%NORTHSTAR COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS: $2k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF FINE ART: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL LIBRARY: $2k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF FINE ART: $3k → 11%RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL LIBRARY: $2k → 14%TRANSITIONAL CONFERENCING: $2k → 11%UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $40k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 11%UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $15k → 14%UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $15k → 14%UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $15k → 14%UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH: $15k → 14%BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING: $2k → 14%BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING: $2k → 14%BELL MUSEUM: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$377k · 20 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$377k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+27%

Still filing today

35%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +12%
  • BI
    BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +60%
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • BM
    BELL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • AW
    AMICUS WEOF FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

2
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
3
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

5
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

8
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
11
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacer Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMICUS — $110,435 · OtherAMICUSUNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH — $100,000 · OtherUNITY UNITARIAN CHURCHSTARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY — $50,000 · OtherSTARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRYVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICABELL MUSEUM — $25,000 · OtherBELL MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $83,500 · Other+17 moreMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,500 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureOpen Eye Theatre — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBEREA COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $5,250 · EducationBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $6,000 · Community ImprovementALIGHT — $2,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 · InternationalDISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS — $2,500 · HealthMICROGRANTS — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPACER CENTER INC — $500 · Civil Rights
Other$438,935Arts & Culture$23,500Education$15,250Community Improvement$6,000International$4,500Health$2,500Philanthropy$1,000Civil Rights$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Eye Theatre — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALIGHT — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACER CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE
  • Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Open Eye Theatre
  • Who funds DISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS
  • Who funds ALIGHT
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS
  • Who funds PACER CENTER 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.

Target FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Target Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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