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Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$544k
Granted FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.0MHealth$396kHuman Services$290kPhilanthropy$139kCrime & Legal$128kFood & Nutrition$91kArts & Culture$72kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k76 grants · $285k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
$4,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$979k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA$42,200
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$25,400
SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES$25,000
CASA KANE COUNTY$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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LAZARUS HOUSE$10,000
LIVING WELL CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAZARUS HOUSE: $20k → 8%GIRLS WHO CODE: $1k → 17%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $20k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $20k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $20k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $20k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $20k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $15k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%TRI-CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $3k → 8%JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $2k → 8%JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 114 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
44

Total granted

$3.0M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

38%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $143k · revenue +61%
  • MG
    MUTUAL GROUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +87%
  • AURORA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +84%
  • WC
    WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX VALLEY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
3
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
Roosevelt University

Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…

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Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 181 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
66/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $209,022 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA: $127,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $103,300 · OtherROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (WILLIAM & ROSEANN LISMAN MEMORIAL): $97,200 · OtherLiving Well Cancer Resource Center: $91,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $86,500 · OtherFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC: $77,000 · Other+119 more: $1,226,084 · Other+119 moreAURORA UNIVERSITY: $101,600 · EducationAURORA UNIVERSITYST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $48,200 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNI…North Central College: $27,800 · EducationNorth Central Col…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $27,500 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $24,600 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $19,400 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology: $19,100 · EducationMarquette University: $19,100 · EducationBelmont University: $17,400 · Education+27 more: $180,250 · Education+27 moreMUTUAL GROUND INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GRO…LAZARUS HOUSE: $70,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HO…ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATIO…TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $60,000 · Human ServicesTRICITY FA…+3 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $143,000 · HealthTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $60,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCASA KANE COUNTY: $127,500 · Civil RightsNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $65,000 · Food & NutritionBATAVIA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBIG ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,017,356Education$518,950Human Services$313,500Health$230,000Civil Rights$127,500Food & Nutrition$70,000Arts & Culture$30,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $143,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $127,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $101,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC: $77,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $60,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $48,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMSA FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION: $40,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBatavia Historical Society: $36,400 over 6y, 26% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College: $27,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $24,600 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $19,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $19,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $19,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $17,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $16,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $16,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY INC: $16,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLewis University: $14,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC: $13,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNorthwestern University: $11,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $11,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $11,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $10,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Advanced Manufacturing Pship NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $7,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBuena Vista University: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY: $6,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBATAVIA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • 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 WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Dunham FoundationGeneva Community ChestShodeen Family Founda…Fox Valley United WayDunham FundInc Mental Health All…The Bersted FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Batavia United WayThe Raymond C and Lin…McGowan Gin Rosica Fa…
Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 181 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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