· Private foundation
The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE DONALD AND AUDREY ANDERSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $15,500 |
| WNMU PUBLIC TV 13 | $4,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ESCANABA | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| TRI COUNTY SAFE HARBOR | $3,000 |
| MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| DELTA COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| ESCANABA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| ESCANABA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY | $2,000 |
| FORTUNE LAKE LUTHERAN CAMP | $2,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,200 |
| BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL | $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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +65%
- RAROOM AT THE INN5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +15%
- MSMARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CCCOVANTAGE CARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR DELTA COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 delaware county community college educational foundation provides financial resources to assist the community college in achieving its mission to facilitate learning by providing quality educational programs and services that are…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Public library
Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana
To support funding of healthcare services for residents of mackinac island.
The baytown chamber of commerce is a business organization created to provide the leadership to enhance economic growth and a better quality of life for the baytown area.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
Community development
Our all volunteer organization provides services to cancer patients who are unable to respond to the catastrophic health care costs caused by the disease and its treatment. we also sponsor prevention/early detection programs for citizens…
To increase eastern shore access to quality health care by improving the supply and distribution of health care professionals through community/academic educational partnerships.
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pregnancy Services of Delta County and the most unlike its peers is Eskymo Fan Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ESKYMO FAN CLUB ↗
- Who funds COVANTAGE CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ESCANABA PUBLIC LIBR ↗
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: Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · Daniel J Kobasic Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Donald and Audrey 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.
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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