Anderson Donor Advised Charitable Fund
Cheyenne, WY · EIN 87-2542019. Reported 25 grants totalling $4,999,470 to 22 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Anderson Donor Advised Charitable Fund, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropic organization (NTEE T99).
- How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 22% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $40,051 and $200,112; the smallest was $10,039 and the largest $1,103,858. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $1,103,858 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fit Scholars | Little Rock, AR | $757,618 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Financial Stewardship Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $750,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Grit | Cheyenne, WY | $500,443 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Break Barriers Foundation Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $350,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Montalbano Family Foundation Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $330,182 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tyr Development Co | Las Vegas, NV | $200,112 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sign Well | Las Vegas, NV | $170,612 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 4HR Sanctuary | Houston, TX | $161,457 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Essential Mind and Body Institute Corp | Tampa, FL | $113,025 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raju Sangani Foundation | Walnut, CA | $100,308 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life of the Village Foundation | Kalispell, MT | $90,226 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vision of Life Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $75,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beasley Foundation Nfp | Carterville, IL | $50,269 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barbaras Blessings Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $50,170 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elite Life Foundation | Redwood City, CA | $40,051 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Suns Smile Senior Care | Las Vegas, NV | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A-Steem Project | Las Vegas, NV | $30,101 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Joes House Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $30,083 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Foundation for Liberty | Las Vegas, NV | $25,390 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calm After the Storm Ministries | Denton, TX | $20,026 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shine Like Stars Inc | Milton, GA | $10,039 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
2 of 22 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
FACILITATATE, SUPPORT AND INCREASE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN VARIOUS AREAS - Fit Scholars
EDUCATION/AWARENESS OF HEALTHIER LIVING TO UNDERSERVED YOUTHS - Blue Grit
TRAIN INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO BEGIN A CAREER IN WELDING AND SIMILAR TRADES - American Financial Stewardship Foundation
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN REAL ESTATE, INVESTING AND FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP - Montalbano Family Foundation
PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLNESS THROUGH EDUCATION AND GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO HELPING OTHERS ACHIEVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE - Sign Well
TO SERVE THE DEAF COMMUNITY AND PROVIDE SERVICES AS NEEDED
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $2,154,440 | $170,612 |
| 2024 | 15 | $2,745,030 | $75,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
41% of its giving went to organizations in Nevada. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $100,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nevada.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Anderson Donor Advised Charitable Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1718 Capitol Ave, Cheyenne, WY, 82001.
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