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Hanson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$255kHealth$77kEnvironment$65kHousing & Shelter$52kEducation$25kInternational$12kHuman Services$11kEmployment$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANT PARK ORCHESTRA ASSOC$58,136
NATURE CONSERVANCY IN IL$25,000
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE$3,000
THE BOULEVARD$2,500
ALL CHICAGO$2,500
ENTERTAINMENT COUNCIL FOUNDATION$2,500
NPCA$2,000
LA CASA NORTE$2,000
CONNECTION FOR HOMELESS$2,000
CHILD CARE NETWORK$1,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER$1,000
IMPACT BEHAVIOR HEALTH$1,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL W$1,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$1,000
YOUTH JOBS CENTER$500
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 (FY17–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 7%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $500 → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$436k · 32 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
19

Total granted

$436k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+6%

Still filing today

56%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthMembership BenefitOther
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

  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +38%
  • GP
    GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +127%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    3× · 2018–2021 · $24k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVAN
    one grant, 2023 · $61k
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +77%
  • WH
    Wellness Housegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
4
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
5
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
7
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
8
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
9
Executive Service Corps of Chicago

Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…

Community Improvement
10
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
11
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
12
Erie Neighborhood House

Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Boxcar Tour Foundation. 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

28 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. 28 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $110,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INCGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $100,686 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATIONGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $18,700 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVAN: $60,920 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANNATURE CONSERVANCY IN IL: $55,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY IN ILTHE BOULEVARD: $17,000 · OtherTHE BOULEVARD+26 more: $66,125 · Other+26 moreCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIO…ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $14,300 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICA…LA CASA NORTE: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA N…+1 more: $500 · Housing & ShelterUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $23,750 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK: $2,000 · EducationWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $2,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesChild Care Network: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $3,500 · Human ServicesCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $1,000 · Human ServicesWellness House: $5,000 · HealthPEER SERVICES INC: $4,000 · HealthHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$233,886Other$199,045Housing & Shelter$43,300Education$30,250Human Services$16,500Health$9,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $110,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $100,686 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $23,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $18,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $14,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWellness House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobeMed NFP: $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPEER SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChild Care Network: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildcare Network of Evanston: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GlobeMed NFP ↗
  • Who funds PEER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Care Network ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds Childcare Network of Evanston ↗
  • Who funds THE BOXCAR TOUR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…Evanston Community Fo…Fifth Third Chicagola…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationThe Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Chicago Community TrustIL23.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Hanson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hanson Family 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 52 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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