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Steven J & Patricia Andersen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of STEVEN J & PATRICIA ANDERSEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MENTORS INTERNATIONAL$120,000
WHITE CLOVER LLC$44,804
PHILANTHROPIES$35,000
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS$3,700
AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES$2,000
WASATCH FENCING LLC$1,000
AMERICAN FORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL$500
UTAH FOOD BANK$100
Individual grant recipient$100
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%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

WA
ID
WI
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NM
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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$610k · 20 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
43

Total granted

$610k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+36%

Still filing today

30%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthHuman 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

  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +18%
  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +71%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +89%
  • BO
    BOOK OF MORMON CENTRALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +62%
  • FL
    FAMILY LIFE ADOPTION
    one grant, 2017 · $14k

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
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
2
Utah Geological Foundation
3
Sundance Institute

Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
University of Providence

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Education
7
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
8
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)

Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

International
9
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Legacy Films 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 51 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr14%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%36%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr14%14%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
13%
3,252/24,476

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.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 68 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHITE CLOVER LLC — $139,605 · OtherWHITE CLOVER LLCPHILANTHROPIES — $135,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIESLDS CHURCH — $134,640 · OtherLDS CHURCHTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATIONBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY — $51,789 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $45,665 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — $25,353 · Other+49 more — $118,739 · Other+49 moreMentors International — $120,000 · InternationalMentors Internat…Academy for Creating Enterprise — $10,000 · InternationalAcademy for Crea…+1 more — $200 · InternationalGrand Canyon University — $32,737 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $5,500 · EducationBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $20,000 · ReligionPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $5,000 · Human ServicesUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST — $2,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,700 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic — $500 · HealthENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $50 · Environment
Other$720,791International$130,200Education$38,237Religion$20,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Health$2,200Environment$50

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 budgetMentors International — $120,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN TO WOMEN FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET WEST — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $50 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 Mentors International
  • Who funds THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University
  • Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL
  • Who funds WOMEN TO WOMEN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
  • Who funds BALLET WEST
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Beesley Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Holmes Family Foundation · My Brother's Keeper Foundation · The Span Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · University Impact · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Steven J & Patricia Andersen 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 68 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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