· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 IDAHO | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIV ENGINEERINGCOMPUTER SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Northwest Kidney Kids Inc ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl M Hansen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl M Hansen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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