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Hansen Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$188kArts & Culture$122kRecreation & Sports$121kEducation$117kHuman Services$110kFood & Nutrition$101kPhilanthropy$96kAnimals$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$27,000
VIRGINA MUSIC THEATER$10,000
HE INTENDS VICTORY$7,550
CIRCLE-A-HOME FOR HORSES INC$6,000
GUERILLA GARDENS$5,000
WHEELS ON DECK$5,000
ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT$5,000
TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION$5,000
FREED SPIRITS ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
THE CHILDREN OF SHE$2,500
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE VA-HAMPTON$2,500
HOUSTON STUTTER SOCIAL FOR KIDS$2,000
OASIS SOC MINISTRIES$500
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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT: $5k → 15%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 13%TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: $3k → 10%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $8k → 12%THE SIMPLE ROOM: $1k → 12%WHEELS ON DECK: $5k → 6%THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 15%TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: $3k → 10%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $5k → 12%WHEELS ON DECK: $3k → 6%TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: $1k → 10%THE UNION MISSION: $1k → 19%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$506k · 25 repeat orgs$493k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
83

Total granted

$506k
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+28%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RS
    Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +46%
  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +219%
  • MB
    MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +342%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSP OF KINGS DAUGHTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AC
    ANOVA CENTER FOR FOOD EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $17k

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
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
2
Crossing Paths Animal Rescue

Our commitment is to the compassionate rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of dogs from high-kill shelters. we exist to give abandoned and at-risk animals a second chance at life through safe transport, medical care, and permanent…

Animals
3
Freedom Ride Rescue

Freedom ride rescue is committed to saving dogs from overcrowded shelters and placing them in loving foster homes until they find their forever families. our mission is to create a no-kill state by rehabilitating and rehoming dogs while…

Animals
4
Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc

The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.

Animals
5
Live Free Animal Rescue

To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.

Animals
6
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals
7
Last Day Dog Rescue Inc

LDDR is a 501(c)(3) organization with a simple mission - saving animals. To us, Last Day is more than just a name; it is a situation that all of our animals are faced with. We are a no-kill animal rescue based in Livonia, Michigan, with…

Animals
8
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc

To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.

Animals
9
Henrico Humane Society Inc

The mission of Henrico Humane Society is to address the enormous population of homeless animals in the greater Richmond, Virginia area by providing care, shelter, and medical services until permanent homes can be found.

Animals
10
Starfish Animal Rescue

To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.

Animals
11
Paws in Need Va Inc

Financial assistance for emergency veterinary care.

Animals
12
Kind Keeper Inc

Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hero Pups Inc and the most unlike its peers is Snedden Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,495

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 118 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
42/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DA — $100,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DACHILDRENS HOSP OF KINGS DAUGHTER — $50,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSP OF KINGS DAUGHTERReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc — $36,000 · OtherReunion Sportive d'Haiti IncUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $35,002 · OtherVBCPS OFFICE OF FOOD SERVICES — $30,000 · OtherSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $25,000 · Other+71 more — $389,490 · Other+71 moreMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationMILITARY BO…OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $27,000 · EducationOLD DOMINIO…VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY — $20,000 · EducationVIRGINIA BE…BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC — $12,500 · EducationBARBERSHOP …NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $5,000 · EducationGlobal Education Center — $5,000 · EducationVIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS — $13,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesBags4Kids LaJuana Moser — $10,000 · Human ServicesTOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWHEELS ON DECK INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesTAKING IT TO THE STREETS WITH LORI AND SHIRA — $7,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT — $5,000 · Human ServicesWord of Honor Fund — $2,500 · Human Services+3 more — $3,044 · Human ServicesHERO PUPS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsCIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC — $8,000 · AnimalsFOUR PAWS AND FRIENDS — $5,000 · AnimalsFREED SPIRITS ANIMAL RESCUE — $5,000 · AnimalsNEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsBRUNOS PRO BONE O PET PANTRY NFP GERRI VAUGHN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR — $3,000 · AnimalsSAVING HORSES INC — $3,000 · AnimalsVieques Island Animal Sanctuary Inc — $2,500 · AnimalsBarking Mad Animal Rescue — $2,500 · AnimalsNO ANIMAL LEFT UNFED INC — $2,500 · AnimalsShore Saves — $2,000 · AnimalsGO2 For Lung Cancer — $10,000 · HealthMercy Medical Angels — $7,500 · HealthBREAST CANCER ANGELS — $5,000 · HealthTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC — $4,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · HealthKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN — $1,250 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthGREEN SCHOOLS NATIONAL NETWORK INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentTHE SHIPWRECK PARK INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$665,492Education$104,500Arts & Culture$63,500Human Services$62,544Animals$48,500Health$31,750Environment$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc — $36,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $35,002 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN SCHOOLS NATIONAL NETWORK INC — $22,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS — $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHe Intends Victory — $12,550 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERO PUPS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBags4Kids LaJuana Moser — $10,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetFREE TO BREATHE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHOES 4 KIDZ — $10,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSierra State Parks Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe River Ellis Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMercy Medical Angels — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELS ON DECK INC — $7,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetTAKING IT TO THE STREETS WITH LORI AND SHIRA — $7,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetD'ART CENTER — $6,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVETERAN SAILING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREED SPIRITS ANIMAL RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSupportWorks Housing — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ANGELS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHIPWRECK PARK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBRUNOS PRO BONE O PET PANTRY NFP GERRI VAUGHN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR — $3,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetVieques Island Animal Sanctuary Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSnedden Family Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMONTERO MEDICAL MISSIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWord of Honor Fund — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShore Saves — $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN — $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Townebank FoundationPatricia and Douglas …Langley for Families …Dominion Energy Chari…Sentara HealthCurtis Family Foundat…The Dalis FoundationThe Clark Nexsen Foun…The Blocker FoundationAmerican Express Foun…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Townebank Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Curtis Family Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · The Clark Nexsen Foundation Inc · The Blocker Foundation · American Express 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 Hansen Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 118 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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