· Private foundation
Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k76 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA | $42,200 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,400 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES | $25,000 |
| MUTUAL GROUND | $20,000 |
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (WILLIAM & ROSEANN LISMAN MEMORIAL) | $18,400 |
| PURDUE | $15,602 |
| FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| LIVING WELL CANCER RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
114 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 18 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $143k · revenue +61%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +87%
AURORA UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +30%
Funded once
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +84%- WCWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry. 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.
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 62 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 181 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Living Well Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMSA FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Batavia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Foundation · Geneva Community Chest · Shodeen Family Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · Dunham Fund · Inc Mental Health Alliance · The Bersted Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Batavia United Way · The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc
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-Furnas Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.
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