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Albert G & Bernice F Hansen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$771kCommunity Improvement$410kPhilanthropy$219kHealth$215kPublic Safety & Disaster$189kHuman Services$138kArts & Culture$87kFood & Nutrition$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIGER TOTS CHILDCAREBENKELMAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$45,000
Individual grant recipient$30,837
Individual grant recipient$30,817
Individual grant recipient$15,890
Individual grant recipient$15,520
STRATTON RURAL CEMETARY DISTRICT$10,000
RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
HAIGLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LITTLE HOUSE MUSEUM$6,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT 117 FARM TO FORK$5,000
DUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–22, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC FOR GRANDVIEW RETIREMENT: $28k → 15%STRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION: $16k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE: $12k → 15%STRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC FOR GRANDVIEW RETIREMENT: $12k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE: $6k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE: $5k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE: $4k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE: $2k → 15%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.
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
134

Total granted

$1.0M
$847k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+4%

Still filing today

26%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • RR
    Rheumatology Research Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +27%
  • HC
    HAIGLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +9% · 53% of their budget
  • SI
    STRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +230%

Funded once

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF STRATTON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $85k
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF CULBERTSON RESCUE SQUAD
    one grant, 2020 · $43k
  • DC
    DUNDY COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE
    one grant, 2021 · $41k
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
Duplin County Agri-Community Center Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Iowa Specialty Hospital Foundation - Clarion
Health
3
Humboldt Community Foundation Inc

General Community Betterment

Philanthropy
4
Dekalb County Nursing Home Foundation in

To support the county nursing home

Community Improvement
5
Douglas County Health Center Foundation Inc

To enhance the quality of life for the residents and staff of the douglas co health center

Health
6
Dakota City Heritage Village Inc

Dchv connects modern generations to the past rural life & agricultural heritage in dakota cty through living history interpretation, education, & collection, preservation, & exhibition of information, objects & buildings.

Arts & Culture
7
Hospital District 1 Crawford County Foundation

To provide support to hospital district 1 of crawford county, all expenses were incurred in connection with this purpose.

Health
8
Sunnyview Foundation Incorporated

To promote, advance, and support the growth, development, and operation of the grundy county nursing home district.

Housing & Shelter
9
St Luke Lutheran Community

Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.

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10
Henderson County Retirement Center Inc

NURSING HOME To provide elder care to anyone who is in need.

Health
11
Douglas Health Care Foundation

The foundation is established to financially support the hospital to enhance facilities, technology, and medical equipment to ensure that douglas county hospital stays on the cutting edge of health care.

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12
Dallas County Fair Foundation

Raise funds to support the dallas county fair association; provide fundraising efforts to improve the infrastructure and programming provided to the residents of dallas county iowa.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dundy County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Village Daycare Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 184 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $95,072 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVILLAGE OF STRATTON LIBRARY: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $78,484 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $65,890 · Other+172 more: $1,393,754 · Other+172 moreDUNDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $137,995 · Community ImprovementCULBERTSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementRheumatology Research Foundation: $130,000 · HealthSARAH ANN HESTER MEMORIAL HOME: $17,245 · HealthSTRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC: $55,541 · Human ServicesLITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE INC: $27,718 · Human ServicesHAIGLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,875 · PhilanthropySCHOOL DISTRICT 117 FOUNDATION: $10,325 · Education
Other$1,718,200Community Improvement$162,995Health$147,245Human Services$83,259Philanthropy$55,875Education$10,325

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUNDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $137,995 over 4y, 70% of budgetRheumatology Research Foundation: $130,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHAIGLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,875 over 5y, 53% of budgetSTRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC: $55,541 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetDUNDY COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE INC: $27,718 over 5y, 14% of budgetCULBERTSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetSARAH ANN HESTER MEMORIAL HOME: $17,245 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 117 FOUNDATION: $10,325 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

  • Who funds DUNDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rheumatology Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAIGLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STRATTON INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUNDY COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE VILLAGE DAYCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CULBERTSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SARAH ANN HESTER MEMORIAL HOME ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT 117 FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Albert G & Bernice F Hansen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert G & Bernice F Hansen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Albert G & Bernice F Hansen Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 184 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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