The Andersen Foundation provides grants to organizations that serve communities with disaster relief, higher education aid, and support for immediate needs. Solely in partnership with Sister Lilly, the Andersen Foundation has been able to support more than 24 nonprofits across 17 cities, totaling over $550,000 in grants provided by the Foundation since 2022.
Arts
- Resource Depot: Resource Depot collects donations of trash and recyclable materials, transforming them into art and redistributing them to teachers, artists, families, and other non-profit organizations that need them, thereby encouraging creative, hands-on learning and innovation.
- Wooden Floor: Wooden Floor's mission is to inspire and transform the lives of young people through the power of dance and access to higher education.
Animals
- Best Friends Animal Society: Works to make all U.S. shelters no-kill by 2025 through rescue programs, partnerships, and its large no-kill sanctuary.
- For the Cat’s Sake: An all-volunteer nonprofit that provides shelter, medical care, fostering, and adoption services for cats in need.
- International Fund for Animal Welfare: Disaster response and risk reduction, combating wildlife crime, and conserving landscapes and animals.
- Paws Across Pittsburgh: A foster-based, non-profit animal rescue providing animals with vet care, spay/neuter, vaccinations and other preventive treatments.
Children & Youth
- BetterALife: Provides food, education, and life skills to support children and families and break the cycle of poverty.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentors youth nationwide to foster confidence, success, and positive life outcomes.
- Center for Children & Youth Justice: An organization committed to bettering lives for generations of children and youth by working to reform the child welfare and youth justice systems.
- Child Development Institute: The Child Development Institute’s mission is to help all children reach their full potential by supporting the relationships and environments that shape their early development.
- Cops for Kids: NYC police officers providing financial and emotional support to children with serious illnesses or disabilities.
- Garden of Dreams: Safe, affordable child care that promotes children's development.
- Lambert House: An organization that supports LGBTQ+ youth.
- Riley's Way Foundation: Supports and connects young leaders around the country to become powerful voices and kind leaders in their communities.
- St. Joseph's House: St. Joseph's House is a licensed nonprofit family daycare for school-aged youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- The Landing: The Landing is an organization that serves youth and adult survivors of human trafficking through a drop-in center.
Community Support
- Action Partnership of Orange County: Provides Orange County families with energy support, youth and family programs, and food assistance to address poverty and promote long-term well-being.
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation: Protects and defends civil liberties in the U.S., working to uphold constitutional rights for all.
- Arlington Community Foundation: Provides emergency COVID-19 relief, personalized charitable giving support, and annual college scholarships for Arlington residents.
- Crisis Center of Tampa: Crisis Center of Tampa Bay's mission is to ensure that no one in the community should have to face crisis alone. They offer five service areas: Gateway Contact Center, Sexual Assault Services, Trauma Center, TransCare, and Success 4 Kids & Families.
- Dominican Sisters: Served communities in 16 U.S. states and Nigeria, focusing on education, health care, spirituality, and issues like immigration, gun control, and human trafficking.
- Glide Memorial: Offers community life groups, musical performances, and Sunday services to promote inclusion in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Haiti Relief Fund: Provides volunteer-based emergency relief (food, water, clothing, shelters, and medical supplies) to earthquake victims in Haiti.
- Italian Home for Children: Offers programs to help children and families with emotional, behavioral, and educational challenges.
- Jesuit Refugee Services: Supports and advocates for refugees worldwide, providing education, health, and emergency aid in crises and prolonged displacement.
- Park Lawn Association: Park Lawn provides those with intellectual and developmental disabilities with services and opportunities that enable them to explore their individual interests and passions.
- Part of the Solution: Provides Bronx residents with food, hygiene, case management, and long-term support services to promote dignity, stability, and self-sufficiency.
- St. Mary’s Center: A community of hope, healing and justice for the West Oakland area focusing on a preschool, community center, and transitional housing.
- Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Provides person-to-person charitable and justice-focused services to people in need, inspired by Gospel values.
- US Embassy Armenia: Provides housing for displaced and low-income families and is building medical facilities and new apartment complexes in Armenia.
- Veteran's Legal Institute: Veteran's Legal Institute provides pro bono legal assistance to homeless, at risk, disabled, and low income current and former service members to eradicate barriers to housing, healthcare, education, and employment, and foster self-sufficiency.
- WINGS: An organization focused on breaking the cycle of domestic violence. They are dedicated to providing high-quality housing, integrated services and advocacy to end domestic violence.
- World Christian: Collects and distributes donations to support individuals in need of medical aid, emergencies, education, and other charitable causes.
Disaster Relief
- All Hands All Hearts: Delivers volunteer-driven disaster relief, empowering local communities for immediate aid and long-term recovery.
- American Friends of Megan David Adom: Israel’s national emergency, blood, and disaster relief service provides medical response, blood supply, and humanitarian aid.
- CA Fire Foundation: Supports firefighters, their families, and communities through financial aid, emotional support, scholarships, and public safety programs.
- Direct Relief: Provides medical aid worldwide to people affected by poverty or emergencies.
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: Provides free medical care and humanitarian aid for any child in the Middle East
- Peaceworks Network: Supports regional organizations in Palestine and Israel to promote youth leadership, democracy, equality, and social justice.
- Wildfire Prevention Inc: Helps communities prevent wildfires through education, Fire Safe Council support, and compliance consulting.
- World Central Kitchen: Provides fresh meals quickly to communities affected by disasters, using local resources to nourish and support those in need.
Education
- Fordham University: An institution dedicated to high-quality education and the growth of students for global leadership.
- Greenhouse Scholars: Supports under-resourced students and alumni through professional development, financial aid, and community impact programs from college into their careers.
- Homeless Children's Education Fund: Organization serving children and youth who experience homelessness in the Pittsburgh area.
- Pennsylvania CPA Foundation: Inspires young people to pursue accounting careers and supports them educationally, motivationally, and financially in earning the CPA credential.
- Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs: Supports CPAs through advocacy, professional networking, and development opportunities
- Princeton University: Leading private research institution with a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.
- Torch Scholars Program: Assists first-generation Northeastern University students from families with exceptional financial need who are US citizens or permanent residents.
- Upward Bound: Helps students prepare for college by providing academic support, motivation, and resources to achieve higher education success.
Food Security
- Boca Helping Hands Inc: Offers food, healthcare, job training, and financial support to help families achieve stability.
- Brownsville Community Culinary Center: Brownsville Community Culinary Center provides healthy food, nutritional education and development opportunities to the community.
- Capital Area Food Bank: Works to ensure equitable food access and opportunity through community partnerships.
- City Harvest Inc: Fights hunger in NYC through food rescue, distribution, and education.
- Community Servings: Provides medically tailored, nutritious meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families.
- Food Lifeline: Provides nutritious food to those in need and works to end hunger by addressing poverty, inequity, and systemic injustice.
- Greater Chicago Food Depository: Fights hunger and promotes food access, equity, and systemic solutions in Chicago and Cook County.
- Hands of Hope for the Community Inc: Works to relieve hunger by distributing nutritious food, promoting health, dignity, and the potential of individuals in the community.
- Houston Food Bank: Provides nutritious food, promotes food access, and supports long-term stability for families in southeast Texas.
- Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: Fights hunger by distributing food, raising community support, and advocating for nutrition and policy solutions.
- North Texas Food Bank: Provides access to nutritious food in North Texas.
- Prevention Point Philadelphia: Organization providing meals to adults who are unsheltered for at least 2 days a week, food insecure, and facing addiction.
- San Francisco Food Bank: Provides food, support, and advocacy to end hunger and address its root causes in the community.
- Share Incorporated: Supports low-income families in the greater McLean area through food, clothing, school supplies, and computer donation programs.
- Share Our Strength: Provides food, resources, and support to children and families facing hunger in the U.S.
- The Greater Boston Food Bank Inc.: Working to end hunger in Eastern Massachusetts.
Healthcare
- American Cancer Society: Funds cancer research, supports patient care and education, and trains healthcare professionals to improve cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship in the U.S.
- Be an Angel: Be an Angel provides adaptive equipment (wheelchairs, hearing aids, compression vests, van conversion equipment, etc) along with respite to families of children with special needs.
- Birth in Color: Birth in Color is focused on redefining what maternal health means for families of color through community events, workshops, and steadfast policy efforts.
- Cancer Support Community SF: Free counseling, support groups, education, and wellness programs for cancer patients and caregivers in the Bay Area.
- Childhood Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation: Free support and wellness services for Bay Area cancer patients and caregivers.
- Elizabeth Seton Children's Foundation: Supporting organizations that care for over 2,500 children with severe medical conditions at Elizabeth Seton Children’s facilities.
- Lavelle School for the Blind: Lavelle School supports blind individuals and offers an Activities of Daily Living Training Apartment project.
- Little Sparks Project: Provides families with financial support to obtain proper care for a complex diagnosis.
- Massachusetts General Hospital: Provides cancer care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, neurology, surgery, women’s health, psychiatry, and community health.
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Provides free care and support to children with catastrophic diseases, conducts global pediatric research, educates medical professionals, and helps families worldwide.
- Urban Dreams: Offers a weekend alternative to jail for first-time DUI offenders, providing required driver education and counting toward mandatory jail time, with court approval.
Housing
- Family House Inc: Offers free housing and support for families of children undergoing treatment for serious illnesses and cancer.
- Family Promise: An organization with a mission to end homelessness for families with children and provide permanent housing, along with addressing the root causes of homelessness.
- Habitat for Humanity: Provides affordable, sustainable housing worldwide through partnerships, volunteer-built homes, youth advocacy, educational grants, and green building programs.
- Low Income Housing Institute: Low Income Housing Institute's Tiny House Village Program was developed to fight homelessness in the Seattle area.
- Mesa: A nonprofit with a mission to prevent homelessness for young adults.
- Rebuilding Together North Texas: Provides home repairs and modifications for low-income families, veterans, first responders, and essential workers in the Dallas area.
- Sacred Heart Community Service: Provides homelessness prevention, food, clothing, transit assistance, and family support, along with case management and rental aid, in Santa Clara County.
- Samaritan House: Offers 24/7 crisis support, housing, counseling, and advocacy for victims of violence and homeless families in Virginia.
- Tunnel to Towers Foundation: Honors the sacrifice of 9/11 heroes, military personnel, and first responders who risk their lives to save others.