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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.

$421k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$103,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$664k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Hanson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$421k14%
FY20238$462k38%
FY20229$392k33%
FY20217$270k57%
FY20204$293k25%
FY20194$165k75%
FY20183$45k67%
FY20171$45kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

International$1.2MFood & Nutrition$600kPhilanthropy$152kHousing & Shelter$70kEducation$26kReligion$15kHuman Services$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MI
CO
TN
NC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Shelter of Cebu$214,00044%
Cure International Inc$155,25120%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$153,67040%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$151,75020%
Samaritan's Purse$145,00040%
Children's HopeChest$15,00010%
Small World Inc$10,00010%
Legacy Christian Academy$10,00010%
Hope Farm School$10,00011%
Relentless Ministries$10,00014%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Hanson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Shelter of Cebu$214,00044%
Cure International Inc$155,25120%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$153,67040%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$151,75020%
Samaritan's Purse$145,00040%
Children's HopeChest$15,00010%
Small World Inc$10,00010%
Legacy Christian Academy$10,00010%
Hope Farm School$10,00011%
Relentless Ministries$10,00014%
University of Minnesota Foundation$20010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hanson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Shelter of Cebu: $214,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCure International Inc: $155,251 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $153,670 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTim Tebow Foundation Inc: $151,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's HopeChest: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSmall World Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLegacy Christian Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Farm School: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRelentless Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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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.

About Hanson Family Foundation

How much does Hanson Family Foundation give?
Hanson Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $421,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hanson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (59%), Food & Nutrition (28%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Hanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Shelter of Cebu ($214k), Cure International Inc ($155k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($154k).
Does Hanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hanson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hanson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Hanson Family Foundation based?
Hanson Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 19 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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