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William and Nancy Anixter Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

William and Nancy Anixter 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$28kHealth$28kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$19kReligion$14kEnvironment$13kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$12,000
HALO ANIMAL RESCUE$6,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$5,000
LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO$3,500
OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS$1,000
TAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC$1,000
BRIDGES PROJECT$500
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO: $7k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO: $4k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO: $4k → 14%LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO: $3k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $250 → 14%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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NY
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CA
AZ
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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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 10 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$109k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

70%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HO
    Hospice of the Valley
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +27%
  • HH
    HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • LP
    LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +251%
  • IC
    IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • LP
    LA PALZA DE ENCUENTRO
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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2
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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3
The Arizona Pet Project

The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…

Animals
4
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
6
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
La Plata County Humane Society

Animal shelter, spay & neuter, humane treatment of animals.

Animals
10
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. 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

15 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. 15 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hospice of the Valley: $28,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the ValleyLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $17,000 · Human ServicesLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLA…+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesPROJECT OSMOSIS: $12,000 · OtherPROJECT OSMOSISBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $12,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBALIVE COVENANT CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherALIVE COVENANT CHURCHIMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH: $2,500 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISHLA PALZA DE ENCUENTRO: $2,500 · OtherLA PALZA DE ENCUENTROST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · Other+7 more: $4,050 · Other+7 moreHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $24,500 · AnimalsHALO HELPING ANIMALS L…THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF …HOPE FOR PAWS: $1,000 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureOUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,800 · PhilanthropyHighland Park Community Foundation: $250 · PhilanthropyPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $2,750 · ReligionPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $1,000 · Environment
Human Services$45,250Other$43,550Animals$28,000Youth Development$12,500Arts & Culture$7,000Philanthropy$4,050Religion$2,750Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHospice of the Valley: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $24,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 William and Nancy Anixter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Nancy Anixter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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