· Private foundation
Hansen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISHES & MORE | $40,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $30,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $6,500 |
| BENTLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AVOW HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| NORWAY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $466k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
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 +64% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWISHES & MORE8× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +117%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +392%- GPGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- TBTHE BLAKE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +8%
- BFBentley Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +200%
- PPPABS PACKSone grant, 2018 · $5k
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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
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University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 WISHES & MORE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Norway House ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Bentley Foundation ↗
- Who funds PABS PACKS ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Wallin Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hansen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hansen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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