· Private foundation
Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of HAROLD S HANSEN & NAOMI H BODENSTAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BALLET THEATRE | $15,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,800 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 59% of Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 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 FY2025, 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
- SPST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $223k
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL CONSER4× · 2017–2024 · $141k
- LCLUTHERAN CAMP ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2020 · $57k · revenue -31%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PFPROJECT FEED THE KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +47%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ANN ARBORone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To preserve historical information, restore and maintain historical buildings, and promote historical education.
To produce superb classical music in michigan's upper peninsula.
The Corporation shall have the purpose of supporting the creation and promotion of the arts, including visual and performance art, and providing education regarding the arts. The purposes include: to build and stage a bold mixture of new…
To operate and maintain a public recreation facility.
The collection, preservation and interpretation of all materials pertaining to the history of Forest County, PA.
To promote winter recreation and maintain DNR designated recreational trails and facilities for use by the general public.
The club provides trails for running and skiing on the Pincushion Mountain trail system supports the local high school ski team and running team including providing equipment and training and provides weekly ski lessons to elementary…
The purpose of the organization is to provide alpine and nordic ski terrain, competition and instruction for the community and children of the area.
To provide historical information to the public and to preserve for safekeeping historic artifacts and buildings. to promote performing arts and community events in the area.
The promotion of the sport of water skiing through group participation in shows and tournaments. the development and maintenance of facilities for water skiing and to stimulate interest in water skiing among non-skiers in the community.
To promote the arts, to foster and advance the development of and to stimulate community interest in the muscial, dramatic and peforming arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt Holiday Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodland School Heartwood Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 LUTHERAN CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Valley Community Center ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND SCHOOL HEARTWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MOVES ME INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MT HOLIDAY INC ↗
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.
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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 Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable 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.