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Gary a Hansberger 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Recreation & Sports$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHealth$126kCrime & Legal$106kAnimals$38kYouth Development$36kHuman Services$22kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FIRST TEE OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY$320,000
DR YOMI DESERT CLASSIC FOUNDATION$300,000
THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$100,000
CDGA FOUNDATION$100,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$15,000
IL PGA FOUNDATION$10,000
DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES$3,160
CPGA FOUNDATION$3,000
MENDED HEARTS OF COACHELLA VALLEY$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 40%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $10k → 40%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$2.8M
$35k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • FT
    FIRST TEE OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M
  • FT
    FIRST TEE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $805k
  • CF
    CDGA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • MZ
    MATTY Z FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sage Valley Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
The Connecticut Golf Foundation Inc the First Tee of Connecticut

To impact the lives of young people throughout connecticut by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

Youth Development
3
Del Rio Cc Foundation Dba First Tee Central Valley

To positively impact the lives of central valley area youth by providing educational programs that ensure character development and the mastery of life skills through instruction in the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports
4
Johnny Miller Champ Foundation

Advocate junior golfers and golf programs

Youth Development
5
The Watson Youth Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
Hollywood Golf Club Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Cff Conservation Foundation

The organization is dedicated to education programming surrounding animal relocation and conservation efforts, building partnerships and projects that promote outdoor recreation, conservation, and charity toward organizations or…

Animals
8
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals
9
Conway Farms Golf Club Foundation

Provide educational scholarships

Education
10
Hilton Head Island Foundation to Support Youth Sports Inc

The first tee helps shape the lives of kids and teens from all walks of life by introducing them to values inherent in the game of golf. values like integrity, respect and perseverance

Recreation & Sports
11
Cw Driver Foundation
Education
12
Chicago District Golf Association Foundation

Founded in 1944 for returning veterans from world war ii, the cdga foundation secures and administers philanthropic support to advance the mission and programs of the cdga. we recognize the life-changing benefits of golf and the importance…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST TEE OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY — $1,222,600 · OtherFIRST TEE OF THE COACHELLA VALLEYFIRST TEE FOUNDATION — $805,000 · OtherFIRST TEE FOUNDATIONDR YOMI DESERT CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $300,000 · OtherDR YOMI DESERT CLASSIC FOUNDATIONCDGA FOUNDATION — $300,000 · OtherCDGA FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+9 more — $197,000 · Other+9 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF F…PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION…+1 more — $36,000 · Recreation & SportsCASA KANE COUNTY — $106,000 · Civil RightsRush Copley Foundation — $26,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN — $19,760 · Public BenefitDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,014,600Recreation & Sports$1,136,000Civil Rights$106,000Health$26,000Public Benefit$19,760Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY — $106,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetRush Copley Foundation — $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN — $19,760 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY
  • Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
  • Who funds GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Rush Copley Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN
  • Who funds DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gary a Hansberger 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gary a Hansberger Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gary a Hansberger 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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