How much does The Anderson Foundation give?

The Anderson Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $62,185 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Anderson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (29%), International (9%).

Who are The Anderson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bentley University ($135k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($16k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($13k).

Does The Anderson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Anderson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Anderson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc.

Where is The Anderson Foundation based?

The Anderson Foundation is based in AZ.

The Anderson Foundation

The Anderson Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$62k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$255kEducation$147kInternational$45kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$13kReligion$12kYouth Development$10kEmployment$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k33 grants · $37k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$991k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY OF HOPE PHOENIX	$25,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$3,500
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION	$2,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$2,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$2,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$2,000
THE OAKWOOD SCHOOL	$2,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$2,000
THE NATURE CONSERVATORY	$1,500
JDRF	$1,500
LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL	$1,250
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$1,250
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$347k · 45 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$347k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+19%

Still filing today

69%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +39%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +98%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +162%

Funded once

JD
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $2k
CF
CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC
one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +19%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $500

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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Children's Health Care

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.

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health

Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

University of Southern California

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…

Education

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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.

Health

University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health

The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

35/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$178,250Education$142,360Other$122,425International$33,450Philanthropy$18,900Human Services$10,600Employment$5,750

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.

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.

Ginny L Clements Charitable TrustAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home