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The Gary M Anderson Childrens Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$10k
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 2018.

Human Services$32kArts & Culture$30kEducation$10kEmployment$10kYouth Development$10kHealth$4k
02FY2018 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN PORTLAND$5,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER$5,000
CHESS FOR SUCCESS$5,000
CONSTRUCTING HOPE PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM$5,000
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND$5,000
NEW MOON PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $30k) 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.

area typical 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $5k → 14%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $5k → 20%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER: $5k → 14%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $5k → 20%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $5k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $5k → 12%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70k · 7 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$70k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+132%

Still filing today

86%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CHESS FOR SUCCESS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • TV
    Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +120%
  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROGUE PACK
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AI
    ARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +132%
  • SL
    SYCAMORE LANE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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.

1
Friends of the Children- Central Oregon

Friends of the children - central oregon is a oregon based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,…

Youth Development
2
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
3
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
4
Our Children Oregon

Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…

Philanthropy
5
Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon

Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals living with physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges by providing innovative, accessible and safe equine-assisted therapeutic programs of the highest quality. we are…

Animals
6
Olalla Center

To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.

—
7
Young Roots Oregon

The mission of young roots oregon is to creatively help young families build healthy foundations. our multi-generational vision is to give pregnant and parenting adolescents through age 24 and their children equitable opportunities for…

—
8
West Side Connect

To foster bridges of care, uniting and empowering Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities in the West Portland Metro Area through education, mentorship, and cultural advocacy.

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the Children - Sw Washington

We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…

Youth Development
10
Volunteers of America of Oregon Inc

Volunteers of america changes lives by promoting self-determination, building strong communities and standing for social justice.

—
11
Friends of the Children - Seattle

Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…

Youth Development
12
Pathfinders of Oregon

The organization provides justice system-impacted individuals and families the tools and support they need to be safe and thrive in our communities.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children-Portland; the most unlike its peers is Sycamore Lane Therapeutic Riding Center. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON: $10,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER O…Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: $10,000 · Human ServicesTreasure Valley Children's Relief N…YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER PORTLANDNEW MOON PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 · OtherNEW MOON PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPAN…BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 · OtherBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANYROGUE PACK: $5,000 · OtherROGUE PACKSYCAMORE LANE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3,500 · OtherSYCAMORE LANE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CE…OREGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION DBA SMART OREGON: $1,500 · OtherCHESS FOR SUCCESS: $10,000 · EducationCHESS FOR SUCCESSConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $10,000 · EducationConstructing Hope Pre-A…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF …ARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$30,000Other$30,000Education$20,000Youth Development$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHESS FOR SUCCESS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTreasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSYCAMORE LANE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · 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 Gary M Anderson Childrens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gary M Anderson Childrens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: 70% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: 2% of income from government
  • Chess for Success: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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