· Private foundation
Paul M Anderson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $50,000 |
| BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| HOPELINK | $25,000 |
| CHIEF SEATTLE COUNCIL BSA | $25,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARK FUND | $20,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HERITAGE UNIVERSITY | $19,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE | $17,000 |
| NORTHWEST KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST | $15,000 |
| ACRES OF DIAMONDS | $15,000 |
| SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE | $15,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOR ALL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Paul M Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM8× · 2018–2025 · $177k · revenue +12%
- HUHERITAGE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +41%
- AOAcres of Diamonds8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- DDDUKE'S DAMSEL ON A TRAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- TPTHE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds BUILDING CHANGES ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DUKE'S DAMSEL ON A TRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUSHING BOUNDARIES ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cascade Bicycle Club ↗
- Who funds ATWORK ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Earthcorps ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · School's Out Washington · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Anderson Foundation · Aven Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Medina 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 Paul M Anderson 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.
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.