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Tracy E Anderson Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS | $6,000 |
| TRUE THE VOTE INC | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $3,600 |
| SALVATION ARMY WINNEBAGO COUNTY | $3,000 |
| BOYLAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AGANDERSON GARDENS5× · 2020–2024 · $109k · revenue +124%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +83%- TPTURNING POINT USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- DCDIXON CENTER FOR MILITARY & VETERAN SERVICE FEDCAP-FEMALE SUPPORTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TBTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -88%
- SASALVATION ARMY COLLIER COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cast Water Safety Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 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. 73 of the 104 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.
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- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
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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: The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Blazer Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Rydell Family 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 Tracy E Anderson Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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