· Private foundation
Hanson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Heritage Foundation | $152,000 |
| The Leadership Institute | $60,000 |
| Media Research Center | $25,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $15,000 |
| Judicial Watch | $10,000 |
| St Vincent De Paul Village | $10,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $10,000 |
| Navy Seal Foundation | $10,000 |
| San Diego Armed Services YMCA | $10,000 |
| Freedom Alliance | $5,000 |
| Committee For A Constructive Tomorr | $5,000 |
| The Claremont Institute | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $872k · revenue +12%- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +45%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- TPTURNING POINT USA INCone grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROWone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
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.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
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…
Isd-us is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to defending democracy and individual rights against threats to public safety and national security. isd-us is at the forefront of analyzing and innovating solutions…
The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hanson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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