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Paul M Anderson Foundation at a glance

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Paul M Anderson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$475kHealth$369kHousing & Shelter$319kEnvironment$274kArts & Culture$185kFood & Nutrition$177kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$131kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST HARVEST$50,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$29,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$25,000
HOPELINK$25,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$25,000
CHIEF SEATTLE COUNCIL BSA$25,000
WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARK FUND$20,000
UW FOUNDATION$20,000
HERITAGE UNIVERSITY$19,000
NORTHWEST KIDNEY FOUNDATION$17,000
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE$17,000
ACRES OF DIAMONDS$15,000
SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST$15,000
SEATTLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE$15,000
CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $10k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $12k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $10k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $6k → 9%HOPELINK: $25k → 9%HOPELINK: $15k → 9%AT WORK: $4k → 9%AT WORK: $4k → 9%AT WORK: $3k → 9%AT WORK: $3k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $12k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $6k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $6k → 9%RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $4k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Paul M Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 88%.

Paul M Anderson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 40 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
3

Total granted

$2.3M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+15%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NH
    NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $177k · revenue +12%
  • HU
    HERITAGE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +41%
  • AO
    Acres of Diamonds
    8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • DD
    DUKE'S DAMSEL ON A TRAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • TP
    THE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +15%
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
Washington Bikes

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.

Recreation & Sports
2
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
3
Nw Energy Coalition

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…

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4
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
7
Re Sources

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.

Environment
8
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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9
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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.

Environment
10
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
11
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
12
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; 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.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $176,500 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $145,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERNORTHWEST KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $91,000 · OtherNORTHWEST KIDNEY FOUNDATIONBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $91,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICARocky Mountain Institute: $86,000 · OtherRocky Mountain InstituteLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $86,000 · OtherLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTESUPPORTERS OF NEWPORT ORCHESTRA: $60,000 · OtherSUPPORTERS OF NEWPORT ORCHESTRAWHITMAN COLLEGE ENDOWMENT: $39,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $88,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCHSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $56,000 · Other+12 more: $166,000 · Other+12 moreBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $157,000 · EducationBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDA…HERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $149,250 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $102,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTO…PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $51,000 · EducationPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LI…+2 more: $22,000 · EducationAcres of Diamonds: $105,000 · HealthAcres of …BUILDING CHANGES: $46,000 · HealthBUILDING …Youth Eastside Services: $32,000 · HealthYouth Eas…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $16,750 · HealthCYSTIC FI…RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $66,000 · Human ServicesRECOVERY …MOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL: $52,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN …HOPELINK: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $25,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC …ATWORK: $14,000 · Human ServicesATWORKCONSERVATION NW: $99,000 · EnvironmentBELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $40,000 · Environment+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: $94,000 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Foundation: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCascade Bicycle Club: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsMaris Place: $88,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,084,500Education$481,250Health$199,750Human Services$197,000Environment$143,000Recreation & Sports$138,000Youth Development$88,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $176,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $157,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $149,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $105,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW: $99,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: $94,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $91,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMaris Place: $88,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $88,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $86,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $86,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $66,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $56,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESCUE COUNCIL: $52,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $51,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $46,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHOPELINK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING HOPE: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE'S DAMSEL ON A TRAIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPUSHING BOUNDARIES: $18,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $16,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATWORK: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCascade Bicycle Club: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEarthcorps: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
  • Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING 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 BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • 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 ATWORK ↗
  • Who funds Cascade Bicycle Club ↗
  • Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Earthcorps ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Lucky Seven FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…School's Out Washingt…Mightycause Charitabl…Anderson FoundationAven FoundationElizabeth a Lynn Foun…Medina Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 44 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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