Alabama · Private foundation
The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $538k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $538k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $659k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $450k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $616k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $303k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $206k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $182k | 93% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverhill Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Bear Creek Collaborative | $180,000 | 4 | 36% |
| University of South Florida Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shoals Symphony Orchestra | $139,640 | 5 | 17% |
| Singing River Trail | $125,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Cramer Childrens Center Inc | $95,680 | 6 | 4% |
| Food Bank of North Alabama Inc | $93,403 | 2 | 0% |
| Shoals Dream Center Inc | $89,500 | 3 | 4% |
| United Way of Northwest Alabama | $79,700 | 3 | 4% |
| Shoals Area Chamber Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 34% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation
- How much does The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation give?
- The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $537,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), International (16%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Riverhill Foundation Inc ($200k), Bear Creek Collaborative ($180k), University of South Florida Foundation Inc ($150k).
- Does The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Long Lewis Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
- Where is The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation based?
- The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation is based in AL.
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