· Private foundation
The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITYGIVING | $43,537 |
| BRIDGES OF HOPE | $11,000 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE | $11,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA - CAMP KNUTSON | $11,000 |
| NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| CROSSLAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACROSSLAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +257%
- BOBRIDGES OF HOPE5× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +133%
- LALAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- MNMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +315%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- CECROSSLAKE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $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.
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.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
The bakken museum inspires a passion for innovation by exploring the potential for science, technology, and the humanities to make the world a better place.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
Ignite the natural curiousity of every child through the power of play in a dynamic, awe-inspiring environment.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds CROSSLAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAINERD LAKES CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds SMILES FOR JAKE ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSLAKE FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSING ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC ↗
- Who funds MID-MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
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: Communitygiving · Essentia Health Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · The Minneapolis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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