· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UNITY EARTH | $2,000 |
| KPOO | $2,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $2,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- DWDoctors WO Bordersone grant, 2019 · $2k
- AALSone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 77 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 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 COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND WOMENS ROWING CLUB ↗
- 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 SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WATCH ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Playhouse 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Anderson Fund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anderson Fund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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