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Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$415k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
85%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$47,322
Largest grant, FY2023
$63,096
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 85% of the organizations Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionCivil 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
FY202313$415k85%
FY202211$31k82%
FY20216$19k67%
FY20207$22kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Philanthropy$385kEnvironment$54kHuman Services$15kInternational$10kEducation$9kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$4kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeather L Kalny Charitable Foundation: $63,096 over 1y, 53% of budgetChristopher J F Graff Charitable Foundation: $63,096 over 1y, 60% of budgetAnderson Gardens: $53,019 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation: $47,322 over 1y, 21% of budgetThe David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation: $47,322 over 1y, 21% of budgetJeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation: $47,322 over 1y, 21% of budgetKristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation: $47,322 over 1y, 23% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $7,117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRockford Rescue Mission Ministries: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRosecrance Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Around the World Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Land Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifescape Community Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCast Water Safety Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrue the Vote Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight 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 21.

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.

Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable FoundationIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation

How much does Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation give?
Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $414,576 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Environment (11%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Heather L Kalny Charitable Foundation ($63k), Christopher J F Graff Charitable Foundation ($63k), Anderson Gardens ($53k).
Does Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable 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 Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation, Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation, Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation.
Where is Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation based?
Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 32 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.

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