· Private foundation
Hanson Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $25,000 |
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $25,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOMEBUILDING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST OF THE WELL | $5,300 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SHELTER PROVIDERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $5,000 |
| SHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC | $4,750 |
| SHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC | $4,000 |
| SHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC | $3,600 |
| CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| NANCY OWENS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION7× · 2018–2025 · $409k · revenue +97%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $252k · revenue +300%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS6× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +82%
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE-NORTHWESTERN MEMOone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TMTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
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Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Found Life Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 50 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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds California Homebuilding Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES ↗
- Who funds STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD STRIDE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARBELLS FOR BOOBS ↗
- Who funds Northeast of the Well ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW FOUND LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH POLICE AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Cashion Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Global Impact
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 Hanson Family Charitable 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.
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.