The Lillian Anderson Family Charitable Foundation makes a small number of large, targeted gifts that prioritize animal welfare, health/medical philanthropy, and faith-based community support. Their giving mixes very large multi-hundred-thousand dollar awards to national or regional institutions with mid-size gifts to local religious and animal-care organizations, suggesting interest in both high-impact institutions and community-level services.
A pair of $500,000 grants defines the Lillian Anderson Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s recent giving: one went to Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County for general support, and the other went to Best Friends Animal Society for general support. That scale places the foundation in a small-group, high-dollar pattern rather than a broad, multi-grantee model. Its recent grant list also includes support for Mayo Clinic Department of Development, St James Church, and Westchester Humane Society, showing that the foundation moves across animal welfare, medical philanthropy, and faith-based community support. The mix of a youth sailing organization in Vero Beach, a national animal-welfare nonprofit, an academic medical center in Rochester, and local New York organizations suggests selective grantmaking aimed at a few institutions at a time. The foundation’s giving is not limited to one type of organization, but the amounts indicate a preference for targeted awards rather than smaller, routine disbursements. Recent grants all land in the United States.
Animal welfare is a clear theme in the foundation’s grant list. It gave $500,000 to Best Friends Animal Society for general support and $12,500 to Westchester Humane Society for general support, pairing a national animal-welfare organization with a local humane society. Health and medical philanthropy appears as well, through a $100,000 grant to Mayo Clinic Department of Development for general support. Faith-based community support is present in a $50,000 grant to St James Church for general support. The foundation also funded youth sailing and maritime education through a $500,000 grant to Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County. Taken together, these awards show a narrow set of recurring interests rather than a broad portfolio of unrelated causes.
The foundation’s recent grants are highly concentrated in size: two gifts at $500,000, one at $100,000, one at $50,000, and one at $12,500. That distribution points to a deliberate model built around a few large awards rather than many small ones. The latest 990 year on file is 2025, and the recent-grants list provided here is entirely from that year. The organization is a private foundation and does not make program-related investments. No application process is described in the data, and the pattern visible here is of direct grants to selected recipients rather than an open, broadly distributed grant program.
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Highly concentrated: very few grants (5) with two exceptionally large $500,000 gifts and the remainder much smaller. Preferences appear to be one-off large awards to a mix of national institutions and local community organizations rather than many small recurring grants.
Notable grantees: Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County, Best Friends Animal Society, Mayo Clinic Department of Development, St James Church, Westchester Humane Society
All listed recent grants went to U.S. recipients. The grant destinations include Vero Beach, Florida; Kanab, Utah; Rochester, Minnesota; New York, New York; and New Rochelle, New York. New York appears twice among the named recipient cities, but the foundation’s own headquarters are in New York, NY and its grants to recipients in the HQ state account for 0% of grants in the provided data. The geographic picture is therefore national rather than locally concentrated, with awards spread across Florida, Utah, Minnesota, and two New York organizations.
The recent grants show support for animal welfare, medical philanthropy, faith-based community support, and youth sailing or maritime education. Examples in the data include Best Friends Animal Society, Mayo Clinic Department of Development, St James Church, Westchester Humane Society, and Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County.
The recent grants are dominated by very large awards. Two grants were $500,000 each, followed by a $100,000 grant, a $50,000 grant, and a $12,500 grant. That places the foundation’s recent giving in a high-dollar, selective range.
No. The recent grants went to recipients in Florida, Utah, Minnesota, and New York. The recipient-city list includes Vero Beach, Kanab, Rochester, New York City, and New Rochelle, which shows a spread across several states rather than one local cluster.
No. The recent grants include organizations in Vero Beach, Florida; Kanab, Utah; and Rochester, Minnesota, alongside two New York recipients. That mix shows both local New York support and grants to organizations outside the state.
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | Kanab, UT | $500,000 | 2025 | General support |
| Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County | Vero Beach, FL | $500,000 | 2025 | general support |
| Mayo Clinic Department of Development | Rochester, MN | $100,000 | 2025 | General support |
| St James Church | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2025 | General support |
| Westchester Humane Society | New Rochelle, NY | $12,500 | 2025 | General support |
Mayo Clinic Department of Development
$100,000General support
St James Church
$50,000General support
Westchester Humane Society
$12,500General support