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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$300kAnimals$170kPhilanthropy$137kEnvironment$79kScience & Tech$68kHealth$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$10,000
YOSEMITE FOUNDATION$10,000
ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$5,000
SEADOC SOCIETY FUND$5,000
SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$200
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$200
MACULAR DEGENERATION ASSOCIATION$100
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
NV
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 22 repeat orgs$595k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
37

Total granted

$2.5M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

77%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $953k · revenue +31%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $67k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MS
    MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +64%
  • CS
    CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTROPIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $31k
  • OS
    OLYMPIC STRINGS WORKSHOP
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
California Academy of Sciences

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
7
Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of American Finance

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…

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9
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,040,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · Education+4 more: $43,000 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $953,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $67,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC+13 more: $51,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRO…Wildlife Health Center Foundation: $130,000 · EnvironmentWildlife Health C…NATUREBRIDGE: $54,400 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE+3 more: $500 · EnvironmentSEATTLE DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $38,500 · OtherCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTROPIC FOUNDATION: $31,200 · OtherORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: $30,700 · OtherISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $22,200 · OtherOLYMPIC STRINGS WORKSHOP: $15,000 · OtherPLANETARY STUDIES FOUNDATION LTD: $13,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherB612 Foundation: $12,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Other+25 more: $41,400 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $38,400 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · Community Improvement
Education$1,183,000Arts & Culture$1,071,000Environment$484,900Other$251,000Philanthropy$106,500Animals$38,900Community Improvement$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,040,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $953,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $67,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $54,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $38,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB612 Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOrcas Island Chamber Music Festival: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEON ART: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHERITAGE FLIGHT MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSaklan Valley School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGNUSSON KLEMENCIC ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OF ELAN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo National Monument Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASE Education and Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKS HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationApex FoundationArtsfundThe Norcliffe Foundat…Orcas Bay FoundationOrcas Island Communit…Wyman Youth TrustJewish Community Foun…Ibm International Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Daniel and Margaret C…Glasser Family Fund
Seattle FoundationWA22.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Anders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Anders Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Anders Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home