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Hansen Sisters Foundation at a glance

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Hansen Sisters Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$70kEducation$61kArts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$11kCommunity Improvement$10kHealth$5kAnimals$3kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,415
Median grant
1
States reached
$128k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Four Seasons Theatre$10,000
Cache Education Foundation$4,415
Westminster University - Men's Lacrosse$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 7%Switchpoint: $5k → 10%CAPSA: $60k → 12%Encircle: $5k → 12%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.
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 4 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$85k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • FS
    Four Seasons Theatre
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k
  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +84%
  • JE
    Jordan Education Foundation
    3× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CA
    CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +123%
  • WC
    Wasatch CAPSA Support Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -5%
  • FS
    FOUR SEASONS THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.

1
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Geological Foundation
—
3
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
4
Wasatch Family Foundation

The Wasatch Family Foundation is a private non-profit organization created to help support sustain and grow Wasatch Charter School and promote Waldorf education in the greater Salt Lake community.

Philanthropy
5
Canyons School District Education Foundation

Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…

Education
6
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
8
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
9
Salt Lake Education Foundation

To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.

Philanthropy
10
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

—
12
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wasatch Capsa Support Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Four Seasons Theatre Company. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Four Seasons Theatre: $32,500 · OtherFour Seasons TheatreWaterford School: $16,000 · OtherWaterford SchoolSUGAR HOUSE COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherSUGAR HOUSE COMMUNITY COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCACHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,415 · OtherCACHE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL A…FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INCEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $5,000 · Human ServicesEncircle Family and Youth Resource Cen…ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST MAR…Jordan Education Foundation: $16,000 · EducationJordan Education Fo…Wasatch CAPSA Support Foundation: $11,000 · PhilanthropyFOUR SEASONS THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCACHE VALLEY FOR HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthUtah Wildlife Federation: $3,000 · Environment
Other$70,915Human Services$70,000Education$36,000Philanthropy$11,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$5,000Environment$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJordan Education Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWasatch CAPSA Support Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCACHE VALLEY FOR HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCACHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,415 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sisters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hansen Sisters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hansen Sisters Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hansen Sisters 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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