· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 59% of Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 31%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold S Hansen & Naomi H Bodenstab Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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