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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
2
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.

Philanthropy$276kEnvironment$54kEducation$14kReligion$8kYouth Development$3kPublic Benefit$1kFood & Nutrition$1kCivil Rights$500Human Services$500Other$134k
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $189k
$47,322
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEATHER KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$63,096
JOHN KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$63,096
CHRISTOPHER JF GRAFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$63,096
TRACY ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$47,322
DAVID & COLLEEN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$47,322
KRISTIN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$47,322
JEFFREY ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$47,322
ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS$30,000
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION$2,500
SALVATION ARMY WINNEBAGO COUNTY$1,000
YOUNG LIFE$1,000
CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION$1,000
HONOR FLIGHT INC$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDTION: $2k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%DIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERAN SERV FEDCAP-FEMALE SUPPORT: $2k → 17%FAITH COMES BY HEARING: $2k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1k → 14%LAKE GENEVA YOUTH CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $3k → 10%BRADLEY IMPACT FUND: $5k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7k → 21%CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%YOUNG LIFE: $1k → 15%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%ACT FOR AMERICA EDUCATION: $500 → 10%DIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERAN SERVICES: $2k → 17%COVENANT HARBOR: $2k → 10%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%KIDS AROUND THE WORLD: $2k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $400 → 21%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $2k → 15%LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 15%CHRISTOPHER JF GRAFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $63k → 15%HEATHER KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $63k → 15%JOHN KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $63k → 15%DAVID & COLLEEN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $47k → 15%JEFFREY ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $47k → 15%TRACY ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $47k → 15%KRISTIN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $47k → 15%ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS: $30k → 15%ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS: $11k → 15%ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS: $7k → 15%ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS: $5k → 15%ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $8k → 15%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%SALVATION ARMY WINNEBAGO COUNTY: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 79% of Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable 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, 92% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 3 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$66k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • AG
    ANDERSON GARDENS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +124%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +106%
  • RR
    ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +83%
  • LG
    LAKE GENEVA YOUTH CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
John W Anderson Foundation
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2
Anderson Foundation
—
3
Anderson Family Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Anderson Foundation
—
5
The Anderson Foundation Inc
—
6
Jack R Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Sandridge Foundation
—
8
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Sanders Family Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Andrah Foundation
—
11
Jessie F Richardson Foundation
Human Services
12
Andrew Winfield Richards Foundation
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cast Water Safety Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr15%52%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr22%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr15%77%20–35yr14%2%35–55yr22%2%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,336

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.

05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEATHER L KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $63,096 · PhilanthropyHEATHER L KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCHRISTOPHER J F GRAFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $63,096 · PhilanthropyCHRISTOPHER J F GRAFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTRACY E ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $47,322 · PhilanthropyTRACY E ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTHE DAVID & COLLEEN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $47,322 · PhilanthropyTHE DAVID & COLLEEN ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONJEFFREY R ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $47,322 · PhilanthropyJEFFREY R ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+3 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyJOHN KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $63,096 · OtherJOHN KALNY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIO…KRISTIN L ANDERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $47,322 · OtherKRISTIN L ANDERSON CHARITABLE F…THE SALVATION ARMY — $7,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+12 more — $18,000 · Other+12 moreANDERSON GARDENS — $53,019 · EnvironmentANDERSON GAR…+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $7,117 · EducationROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES — $5,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $8,400 · ReligionKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$276,158Other$135,918Environment$54,019Education$14,117Religion$8,400Youth Development$2,500Public Benefit$1,000

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 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 budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL LAND INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT 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.

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.

Jeffrey R Anderson Ch…Kristin L Anderson Ch…Tracy E Anderson Char…The David & Colleen A…John & Linda Anderson…Community Foundation …Sjostrom & Sons Found…Bergstrom Inc Charita…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
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

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 Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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 32 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.

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