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Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2019
24
Grants FY2019
24
Organizations funded FY2019
46%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 24
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Total assets, FY2019
$965k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 46% of the organizations Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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
FY201924$66k46%
FY201824$43k58%
FY201722$69kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$121kReligion$17kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$9kHuman Services$4kInternational$4kYouth Development$3kSocial Science$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
MO
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRory David Deutsch Foundation: $16,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetPcd Ks Foundation: $12,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation: $12,315 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMoadon Kol Chadash: $11,310 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $3,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFor Autistic Kids Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErikson Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lyon Family Foundation: $1,675 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chick Mission Inc: $1,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAfter School Matters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare our Spare: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Wellness Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenee Israel Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteppenwolf Theatre Company: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Education in Honduras: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerit School of Music: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp for All Kids: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $50 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 26.

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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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation

How much does Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation give?
Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $66,344 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (68%), Religion (10%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Children's Hospital Colorado ($20k), Rory David Deutsch Foundation ($16k), Pcd Ks Foundation ($13k).
Does Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Scott and Penny Anixter Family 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 Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Scott and Penny Anixter Family Foundation based?
Scott and Penny Anixter Family 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 47 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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