· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $103,500 |
| BRAVE HEARTS ETHIOPIA (BHE) | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU | $75,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $60,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $51,750 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $20,780 |
| RELENTLESS MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU4× · 2021–2024 · $214k · revenue +0%
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +44%- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $154k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CHChildren's HopeChestone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +4%
- SWSMALL WORLD INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -87%
- LCLEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +52%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…
Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Providing responsible evangelism, leadership, development, and humanitarian assistance.
None
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
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 19 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 CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's HopeChest ↗
- Who funds SMALL WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Relentless Ministries ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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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