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The 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$30kEducation$26kHealth$20kEmployment$19kReligion$10kCrime & Legal$10kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$848k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Folds of Honor$5,000
Semper Fi & Americas Fund$5,000
Casa of North Mississippi$5,000
Le Bonheur Childrens' Hospital$5,000
The Midnight Mission$5,000
Hire Heros USA$5,000
St Jude$3,000
Turning Point USA$3,000
Palmer Home for Children$3,000
The Tim Tebow Foundation$3,000
The Ability Experience$3,000
Family Crisis Services$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Palmer Home for Children: $3k → 10%Palmer Home for Children: $3k → 10%The Midnight Mission: $10k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $5k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $5k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $5k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $5k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $5k → 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

NY
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
OK
MS
GA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 10 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$130k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +103%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • MF
    MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • LO
    LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -8%
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
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
3
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
4
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
5
The Folded Flag Foundation

The mission of the folded flag foundation is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident…

Public Benefit
6
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
7
Minnesota Military Family Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to provide timely financial assistance to deployed and currently serving minnesota military personnel and their families, who have a financial crisis that is not supported by existing state or federal…

Philanthropy
8
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…

Philanthropy
9
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
10
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
11
The Honor Foundation Inc

Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector careers.

Employment
12
Third Option Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to provide support to the families of government employees who have died or been seriously injured in the service of their country but whose employment status prohibits them from seeking assistance from…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folds of Honor Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Casa of North Mississippi. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Le Bonheur Childrens' Hospital: $17,000 · OtherLe Bonheur Childrens' HospitalSt Jude: $10,000 · OtherSt JudeCASA OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI: $10,000 · OtherCASA OF NORTH MISSISSIPPITHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $3,000 · OtherTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCELOVEPACKS: $3,000 · OtherLOVEPACKSTURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCCity of Hope: $2,000 · OtherFamily Crisis Services: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSIONPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDRENFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATI…HIRE HEROES USA INC: $9,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INCBLOOM AGAIN FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationBLOOM AGAIN FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL T…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATI…MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDA…LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLAND OF THE FREE FOU…TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 · Health
Other$50,500Human Services$41,000Education$34,500Philanthropy$30,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $500 over 2y, 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Anderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to The Anderson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Anderson Family 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 20 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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