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Hanser Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Education$281kHealth$196kReligion$149kHuman Services$91kArts & Culture$87kEnvironment$62kPhilanthropy$60kCommunity Improvement$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$910k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEIGHTS CAREER TECH INSTITUTE$100,000
LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
CHARITABLE FNDN OF THE ISLANDS$16,000
ST MARTIN BY-THE-LAKE CHURCH$11,000
BAILEY-MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM$11,000
ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,200
FGCU FOUNDATION$10,000
LEGACY FOUNDATION SHELL POINT$8,600
COMMUNITY HOUSING AND RESOURCES$6,500
ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL$5,000
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,100
TURNING POINT USA$1,000
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERV FNDN$1,000
CAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AARP FNDN: $30 → 14%HEART FOR ORPHANS: $500 → 7%AARP FOUNDATION: $30 → 14%HOPE HOSPICE: $1k → 11%TRAILWAYS CAMPS INC: $500 → 11%LEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 11%LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH: $1k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL: $10k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $1k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $250 → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $100 → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL: $100 → 11%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$695k · 61 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
77

Total granted

$695k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+31%

Still filing today

34%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MH
    MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +29%
  • CH
    Community Housing and Resources Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +86%
  • FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • ST
    SUN TRUST FUND FBO KATHY ANDERSON
    one grant, 2021 · $47k
  • KC
    KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • ST
    SUN TRUST FBO KATHY ANDERSON
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
United States Naval Institute

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.

2
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
10
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
11
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Youngquist Charitable Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Christian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr9%24%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%21%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr9%12%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,984

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

53 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
34/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEIGHTS CAREERTECH INSTITUTE — $100,000 · OtherHEIGHTS CAREERTECH INSTITUTELEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $90,050 · OtherLEGACY FOUNDATION INCST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH INC — $82,079 · OtherST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH INCLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $63,600 · OtherLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERV FNDN — $49,600 · OtherSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERV FNDNSUN TRUST FUND FBO KATHY ANDERSON — $47,000 · OtherSUN TRUST FUND FBO KATHY ANDERSONBAILEY-MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM — $38,050 · OtherST MARTIN'S BY-THE-LAKE CHURCH — $34,550 · OtherBIG ARTS — $33,500 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE — $30,000 · Other+110 more — $283,708 · Other+110 moreFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $27,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School — $2,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,200 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $1,650 · Education+2 more — $800 · EducationCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC — $37,400 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY — $4,900 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $21,000 · HealthGLOBAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,665 · HealthBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600 · Health+4 more — $1,050 · HealthThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc — $8,600 · PhilanthropyYOUNGQUIST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $7,800 · Philanthropy+1 more — $400 · PhilanthropyFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $11,700 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $1,300 · Human ServicesLEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,000 · Human Services+3 more — $1,153 · Human ServicesCommunity Housing and Resources Inc — $11,750 · Housing & Shelter
Other$852,137Education$44,950Community Improvement$42,300Health$35,315Philanthropy$24,800Human Services$16,153Housing & Shelter$11,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC — $37,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $27,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Housing and Resources Inc — $11,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $11,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc — $8,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetYOUNGQUIST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 4y, 99% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $7,800 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUPLIFT INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $4,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL CAPTIVA KIWANIS INC — $2,750 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,665 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $1,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE TO A CURE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART FOR ORPHANS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAILWAYS CAMPS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOBERMAN RESCUE MINNESOTA — $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWreaths Across America — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC
  • Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Community Housing and Resources Inc
  • Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC
  • Who funds GLOBAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc
  • Who funds CAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds YOUNGQUIST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UPLIFT INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY

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.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Columbus Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 Hanser 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
202122232425
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation4% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 149 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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