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Hanson Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT TOWNSEND AERO MUSEUM | $462,515 |
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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PTPORT TOWNSEND AERO MUSEUM5× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue -19% · 71% of their budget
- NCNORTH CASCADES VINTAGE AIRCRAFT MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · 96% of their budget
- SGSolid Ground Washington3× · 2020–2022 · $210k · revenue -13%
Funded once
- BSBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -47% · 28% of their budget
- OHOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +27%
- YEYouth Eastside Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +80%
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 Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.
To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kitsap Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 23 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 PORT TOWNSEND AERO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CASCADES VINTAGE AIRCRAFT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds KITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West African Community Council ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KITSAP PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PORT ORCHARD ROTARY FOUNDATION CO TODD EGGERS CPA ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KITSAP ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chinese Information and Service Center ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Foster Foundation · School's Out Washington · Overlake Medical Center & Clinics · Aven Foundation · Discuren Foundation · Joshua Green Foundation Inc · Kitsap Community Foundation
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 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.
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