· Private foundation
Terry and Susan Anderson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| RIVERHILL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ALABAMA KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FCA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $36,000 |
| SMILE-A-MILE | $25,000 |
| THE ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSMILE-A-MILE8× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +24%
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC3× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue 0%
- FUFCA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA3× · 2023–2025 · $111k
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -38%
- FPFLORENCE-LAUDERDALE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
None
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people affected by lupus through programs of research, education, support, and advocacy.
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERHILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Northwest Alabama ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LUTZIE 43 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kingdom Alliance Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Terry and Susan Anderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry and Susan Anderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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