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Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 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
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$52k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$4k100%
FY20221$50k100%
FY202111$86k18%
FY202018$128k11%
FY201922$74k23%
FY201821$102k24%
FY201718$48kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Starr King School for the Ministry$50,0003n/a
Minnesota Historical Society$12,50050%
Berea College$10,00010%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc$8,50040%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative$6,00030%
St Catherine University$5,25040%
Open Eye Theatre$2,50011%
Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos$2,5004n/a
Alight$2,50040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,00040%
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All grantees of Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Starr King School for the Ministry$50,0003n/a
Minnesota Historical Society$12,50050%
Berea College$10,00010%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc$8,50040%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative$6,00030%
St Catherine University$5,25040%
Open Eye Theatre$2,50011%
Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos$2,5004n/a
Alight$2,50040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,00040%
Microgrants$1,00010%
Pacer Center Inc$50010%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($389k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

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

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.

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About Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation

How much does Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation give?
Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $4,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Crime & Legal (23%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Starr King School for the Ministry ($50k), Minnesota Historical Society ($13k), Berea College ($10k).
Does Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Target Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr Foundation based?
Mary Anne K and William R Anderson Jr 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 34 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) 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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