· Private foundation
Dane G Hansen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k119 grants · $432k
- $10k–50k103 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k98 grants · $9.0M
- $250k+26 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANE G HANSEN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $2,079,228 |
| CITY OF LOGAN | $1,606,910 |
| NCRPC | $1,185,000 |
| GNWKCF | $1,000,000 |
| FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL | $1,000,000 |
| NWKEICI | $996,813 |
| NWKEICI | $954,908 |
| NWKEICI | $802,556 |
| NEX-GENERATION ROUND UP FOR YOUTH | $799,355 |
| CITY OF LOGAN | $605,517 |
| FHSU FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GNWKCF | $412,500 |
| GNWKFC | $412,500 |
| NORTON AREA CHILD CARE ASSN | $350,000 |
| CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Dane G Hansen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 94%.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
178 repeat relationships: 107 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 103 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NRNEX-GENERATION ROUND UP FOR YOUTH INC3× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +17% · 80% of their budget
- CFCITIZENS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $722k · revenue +1% · 49% of their budget
- NANORTON AREA CHILDCARE ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $449k · revenue +84% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- LPLIFE PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $3.3M
- VCVICTORIA COMMUNITY COALITION INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +9% · 33% of their budget
- GHGROW HAYS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $385k · revenue +63%
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.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
To regenerate kansas grazing land resources through cooperative management, economics, ecology, production, education and technical assistance programs.
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
To preserve and sustain rural culture. to educate kansans about kansas (to create a thoughtful audience for communities) and network & support rural communities.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Provide healthcare services and resources to courtland kansas and the surrounding rural communities.
Preservation study and collection of historical items
Public charity
How this is measured
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 554 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation · Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Earl Bane Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Salina Regional Health Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dane G Hansen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dane G Hansen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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