California · Nonprofit
ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP
ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,338 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,994). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $0
What Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship does
Mission
The foundation provides grants for the benefit of academic professionals engaged in serious, scholarly work based on the philosophy and writings of ayn rand, and provides resources to others in academia interested in understanding her ideas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Transfers and fellowships: the foundation provides fellowships and grants to universities, to promote the study of objectivism.
$629,754 spentof which $88,325 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $629,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $622k to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tal Tsfany
CEO
Board chair
Yaron Brook
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $77k.
5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 63% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP?
- ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,338 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($83,994). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $242,338 in grants to ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $83,994 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANTHEM FOUNDATION FOR OBJECTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing