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Sidney W Anderson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$40kEducation$25kEnvironment$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,000
KY NATURAL LAND TRUST$4,000
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION$3,000
HIGHLAND PARK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$2,400
CABBAGE PATCH$1,000
BEREA COLLEGE$1,000
WHITNEY STRONG INC$1,000
FEED LOUISVILLE$1,000
LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA$1,000
KY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC$1,000
CECIL RAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
JUNIPER HUNT & FISH CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$750
KET$750
YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE$750
WEST END SCHOOL$750
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $750 → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $750 → 15%HOSPARUS: $1k → 15%HOSPARUS: $1k → 15%HOSPARUS: $750 → 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.

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$134k · 22 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$134k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-2%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • KN
    KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +201%
  • LM
    LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +208%
  • BEREA COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • RW
    RESTAURANT WORKERS RELIEF PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • RB
    REPUBLIC BANK FOUNDATION OF THE YMCA
    one grant, 2020 · $750
  • KR
    KY RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $500

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
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
2
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
3
Greater Louisville Behavior Health Center

The mission of Greater Louisville Behavioral Health is to provide services surrounding behavioral health and substance abuse, especially to those in the criminal justice system

Human Services
4
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
5
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
6
Glean Kentucky Inc

Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.

Food & Nutrition
7
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

8
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.

Health
9
Hospice of Southern Kentucky Inc

The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…

10
Owensboro Health Medical Group Inc

Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.

Health
11
Louisville Recovery Community Connections Inc

We engage our community and build meaningful relationships by supporting organizations, individuals, families, and sustaining recovery. increasing public awareness and decrease stigmas and injustices through support services, education,…

Health
12
The Mend House Sober Living Community

The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Sinners. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $23,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHIGHLAND PARK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — $16,600 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHCABBAGE PATCH — $6,500 · OtherCABBAGE PATCHKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC — $5,679 · OtherKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INCLOUISVILLE WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS — $4,250 · OtherLOUISVILLE WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENSKET — $4,000 · OtherMAUPIN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $3,700 · Other+13 more — $12,955 · Other+13 moreKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC — $18,000 · EnvironmentKENTUCKY NATUR…LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalLOUISVILLE M…BEREA COLLEGE — $7,000 · EducationBEREA COLLE…West End School Inc — $3,955 · EducationWest End Sc…BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $2,500 · EducationBELLARMINE …DARE TO CARE INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionFeed Louisville Inc — $3,000 · Food & NutritionKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH — $2,750 · Human Servicesthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$76,684Environment$18,000Crime & Legal$15,000Education$13,455Food & Nutrition$6,000Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$4,250

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 budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWest End School Inc — $3,955 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeed Louisville Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY STRONG INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFHGR INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SINNERS — $250 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.

  • Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE
  • Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC
  • Who funds West End School Inc
  • Who funds DARE TO CARE INC
  • Who funds Feed Louisville Inc
  • Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH
  • Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
  • Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc
  • Who funds WHITNEY STRONG INC
  • Who funds FHGR INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SINNERS

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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank 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 Sidney W Anderson Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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