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Harlan E Anderson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$312k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$840kHousing & Shelter$439kInternational$325kEnvironment$217kScience & Tech$160kHealth$160kReligion$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $924k
  • $250k+1 grant · $312k
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$312,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$150,000
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY JESUIT COMMUNITY$115,000
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$115,000
AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$115,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$100,000
COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE$67,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$62,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$50,000
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE ST VRAIN VALLEY$39,403
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
MT
NY
MA
CO
TN
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$2.0M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+26%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationInternationalRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +1%
  • RR
    RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $295k · revenue +2%
  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is President and Trustees of Bates College. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $912,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO I…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL — $400,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONALRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $295,000 · OtherRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA…GONZAGA UNIVERSITY JESUIT COMMUNITY — $115,000 · OtherGONZAGA UNIVERSITY JESUIT COMMUNIT…AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $115,000 · OtherAIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGEWOUNDED WARRIORS — $62,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY — $39,403 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $325,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $160,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CON…AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $180,000 · EducationAIMS COMMUNITY…CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $175,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF…PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND …COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $167,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $160,000 · Health
Human Services$1,087,000Other$1,026,403International$485,000Education$430,000Recreation & Sports$217,000Health$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $912,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $295,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetAIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $167,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST VRAIN VALLEY — $39,403 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Harlan E 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harlan E Anderson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harlan E Anderson Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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