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Sanford Anderson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Sanford Anderson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$59kHealth$21kAnimals$21kEnvironment$10kArts & Culture$5kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$5,000
HOLLENBECK POLICE AND BUSINESS ASSN$5,000
P F BRESEE FOUNDATION$5,000
OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES: $6k → 14%THE LAND TRUST FOR: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%EARTHECHO INTL: $5k → 14%ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $6k → 14%CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES: $5k → 14%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $5k → 14%ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES: $5k → 14%OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE: $5k → 14%P F BRESEE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%P F BRESEE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%P F BRESEE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND: $6k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND: $5k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND: $5k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND BUSINESS ASSN: $5k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND: $5k → 14%HOLLENBECK POLICE AND: $5k → 14%CREATE NOW: $6k → 14%CREATE NOW: $6k → 14%CREATE NOW: $5k → 14%CREATE NOW: $5k → 14%PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%L A RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $4k → 14%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 6 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$118k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+75%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • CN
    CREATE NOW INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +73%
  • ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +166%
  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAND TRUST FOR
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SA
    SPAY-NEUTER ACTION PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +75%
  • EI
    EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +40%
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
Project Street Vet

Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.

Animals
2
SPAY4LA Inc

Spay4la is dedicated to alleviating the needless pain and suffering of thousands of animals killed in los angeles. the organization offers free and low cost spay and neuter services for cats and dogs in the los angeles area.

Animals
3
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
4
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
5
Actors and Others for Animals

To eliminate pet overpopulation, ensure good care and protection for pet companions, and provide referral and financial support for economically challenged pet guardians.

Animals
6
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
7
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
10
California Council On Economic Education

The mission of the california council on economic education is to improve california's economic future by teaching economics and financial literacy, especially in under-served communities. ccee provides a broad range of resources and…

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11
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
12
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Create Now Inc; the most unlike its peers is Operation Blankets of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,726 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPF Bresee Foundation: $16,200 · OtherPF Bresee FoundationTHE LAND TRUST FOR: $5,220 · OtherTHE LAND TRUST FORHOLLENBECK POLICE AND BUSINESS ASSN: $5,000 · OtherHOLLENBECK POLICE AND BUSINESS ASSNL A RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $4,275 · OtherL A RONALD MCDONALD HOUSECREATE NOW INC: $21,896 · EducationCREATE NOW INCOperation Blankets Of Love: $16,020 · EducationOperation Blankets Of LoveALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $21,340 · HealthALTAMED HEALTH S…THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $16,340 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORN…THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSPAY-NEUTER ACTION PROJECT: $5,000 · Animals
Other$56,421Education$37,916Health$21,340Youth Development$16,340Arts & Culture$10,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetCREATE NOW INC: $21,896 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $21,340 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $16,340 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $16,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Blankets Of Love: $16,020 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPAY-NEUTER ACTION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sanford Anderson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanford Anderson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    4report 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
    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 12 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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