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The Anderson Fund 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 $10k21 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $8,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATION | $5,000 |
| SIERRA WATCH | $4,500 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $3,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $3,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $2,000 |
| BERKELEY PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| KPOO | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| UNITY EARTH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue ×34
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +98%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- NRNATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- AALSone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Music School Inc. 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 33 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.
47 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. 47 of the 77 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA TUMOR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Mountain Area Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND WOMENS ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE ↗
- Who funds UNITY EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WATCH ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Playhouse 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: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Fund 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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.
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