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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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$53kReligion$39kHuman Services$18kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$7kInternational$2kArts & Culture$50Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$5,000
UTAH OPEN LANDS$5,000
PROJECT MEXICO$2,575
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 (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TINY PEOPLE INC: $140 → 20%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 8%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 6 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +258% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$128k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+258%
+62%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    3× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +1%
  • WA
    WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +258%
  • UO
    UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +524%

Funded once

  • AI
    ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 ENDOWMENT FUND INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • GO
    GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PN
    PAX NATURA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
2
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
3
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
4
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
5
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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6
Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.

Health
7
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

—
8
Utah Parent Center Inc

Our mission is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with all disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.

Human Services
9
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Utah Medical Association

The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.

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11
Wasatch Homeless Health Care

Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.

Health
12
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Center Utah; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $39,122 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $10,600 · OtherWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INCARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 ENDOWMENT FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 ENDOWMENT FUND INCORPOR…GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SL: $5,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SLPAX NATURA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherPAX NATURA FOUNDATIONPROJECT MEXICO: $4,120 · Other+7 more: $3,925 · OtherHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION+2 more: $750 · HealthNeighborhood House Association: $17,500 · Human ServicesNeighborhood…+1 more: $140 · Human ServicesUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $660 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN OF GRACE: $355 · International
Other$77,767Health$50,750Human Services$17,640Environment$7,000Recreation & Sports$660International$355

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 budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $10,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF GRACE: $355 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTINY PEOPLE INC: $140 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
David Kelby Johnson Memorial FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 21 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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