· Private foundation
The Anderson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE PHOENIX | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,500 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
| JDRF | $1,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVATORY | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,250 |
| LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| LUTHER SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +39%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +98%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +88%
- PSPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -24%
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Please see schedule o
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Third Avenue Charitable Organization. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 62 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 BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
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: Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Anderson 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.