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The Anderson Foundation Inc

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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$240kCrime & Legal$153kCommunity Improvement$122kEducation$32kHealth$25kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$235k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CITY MISSION$16,500
TRUE FREEDOM MINISTRIES$16,400
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SCORE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
HILLSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$2,474
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$1,700
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE$1,200
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
TWO FOUNDATION$100
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $100 → 9%MYAI WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%MYAI WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 17%MYAI WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 17%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
AZ
KS
TN
OK
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688k · 18 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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23

Total granted

$688k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+41%

Still filing today

33%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHealthEducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • TF
    True Freedom Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +9%
  • SI
    SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $137k · revenue +61%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +144%
  • DM
    DENISON MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LB
    LOOKOUTS BASEBALL 07
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
3
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
4
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
5
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
No Limits Academy Inc

No limits academy seeks to glorify god by providing disabled students with the academic resources, technology, adaptive equipment and self-respect that they need to achieve their fullest potential.

Education
8
Courage for Life Incorporated

Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. we create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their…

Human Services
9
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health
10
Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

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11
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
12
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Donald E Gordon Charitable Foundation 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

21 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. 21 of the 46 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $127,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY MISSION: $121,955 · OtherCITY MISSIONGOSPEL FOR ASIA INC: $35,000 · OtherGOSPEL FOR ASIA INCBIBLE LEAGUE: $22,500 · OtherBIBLE LEAGUEVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC: $18,500 · OtherHILLSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15,500 · Other+24 more: $66,200 · Other+24 moreTrue Freedom Inc: $150,805 · Crime & LegalTrue Freedom IncSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $136,575 · ReligionSCORE INTERNATIONAL I…AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,500 · ReligionLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $5,000 · ReligionCompassion International Incorporated: $25,010 · InternationalHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $12,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $9,700 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOL: $2,245 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationMYA WOMENS CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,710 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,200 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · Health
Other$406,655Crime & Legal$150,805Religion$147,075International$25,010Education$24,045Human Services$14,200Health$8,910

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 budgetTrue Freedom Inc: $150,805 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $136,575 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $25,010 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $9,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DONALD E GORDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $2,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTZ BASEBALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOMBER ELITE INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds True Freedom Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds MYA WOMENS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DONALD E GORDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ONE BREATH AT A TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTZ BASEBALL ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.

Servant FoundationKS13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%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
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Anderson Foundation Inc 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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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