· Private foundation
Carl M Hansen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Washington Trust Bank.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW | $13,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIV COLLEGE OF NURSING | $11,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $10,000 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIV ENGINEERINGCOMPUTER SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| SPOKANE SYMPHONY | $8,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $7,500 |
| NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE | $7,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +46%
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +42%- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WCWSU COLLEGE OF NURSINGone grant, 2017 · $15k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IIIllinois Institute of Technologyone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Spokane International Academy empowers its students with the academic skills, habits of mind and global competence necessary to complete advanced courses in high school and a four-year college degree in order to become leaders who can…
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
We, the people of northwest university, carry the call of god by continually building a learning community dedicated to spiritual vitality, academic excellence, and empowered engagement with human need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corporation of Gonzaga University and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Connoisseur Concerts Association ↗
- Who funds Spokane Art School ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICFEST NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Kidney Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Johnston-Fix Foundation · Johnston-Hanson Foundation · Artsfund · Believe in Me · Pierce Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carl M Hansen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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