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The Anders 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $300,000 |
| WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $50,000 |
| NATURE BRIDGE | $30,200 |
| ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| YOSEMITE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| SEADOC SOCIETY FUND | $5,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $200 |
| SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION ASSOCIATION | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION7× · 2017–2025 · $953k · revenue +34%- SDSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC3× · 2017–2021 · $67k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MSMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +64%
- CSCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTROPIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $31k
- OSOLYMPIC STRINGS WORKSHOPone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Highway Patrol. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 72 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Health Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANETARY STUDIES FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds B612 Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEON ART ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FLIGHT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Saklan Valley School ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planes of Fame Air Museum ↗
- Who funds SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAGNUSSON KLEMENCIC ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ART OF ELAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Apex Foundation · Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Orcas Bay Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Ibm International Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Glasser Family Fund
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 The Anders 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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