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J Elmer and Esther Hansman Char Tr at a glance

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J Elmer and Esther Hansman Char Tr

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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$523kAnimals$160kHuman Services$120kRecreation & Sports$52kHousing & Shelter$28k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS MINNESOTA$25,000
GILLETTE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDN$23,000
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$12,500
CAN DO CANINES$7,500
COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION$7,500
HOME FOR LIFE$7,500
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HELPING PAWS: $10k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $10k → 11%HELPING PAWS: $10k → 11%HELPING PAWS: $10k → 11%HELPING PAWS: $10k → 11%HELPING PAWS: $8k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$748k · 14 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$748k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+39%

Still filing today

64%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GC
    Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +51%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +33%
  • HP
    HELPING PAWS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • FF
    Fairview Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • HF
    HOME FOR LIFE- ANIMAL --
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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2
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
3
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
4
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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5
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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6
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
7
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
8
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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9
Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
11
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
12
United Hospital Foundation

United hospital foundation exists to enhance the health of united hospital patients and the wellness of the community we serve. the foundation, year after year, has proven that a true partnership between community and hospital guarantees…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Can Do Canines. 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

13 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. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $128,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hospital FoundationREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $92,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INCCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFairview Foundation: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthCHILDRENS MINNESOTA: $130,000 · OtherCHILDRENS MINNESOTACOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATIONCAN DO CANINES: $42,500 · OtherCAN DO CANINESHOME FOR LIFE - ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $37,500 · OtherHOME FOR LIFE - ANIMAL SANCTUARYHOME FOR LIFE: $27,500 · OtherHOME FOR LIFEHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $22,500 · Other+3 moreTRUE FRIENDS: $52,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUE FRIEND…ONE HEARTLAND: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsONE HEARTLA…HELPING PAWS INC: $57,500 · Human Services
Health$382,500Other$350,000Recreation & Sports$92,000Human Services$57,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $128,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC: $57,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $52,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $42,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetONE HEARTLAND: $40,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFairview Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds ONE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗

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.

Catholic Community Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…St Croix Valley Found…Otto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationThe John Mondati Foun…Edwards Memorial TrustAnna M Heilmaier Char…Engelsma Family Found…The Graco FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…
Catholic Community Foundation of MinnesotaMN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The John Mondati Foundation · Edwards Memorial Trust · Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn · Engelsma Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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 J Elmer and Esther Hansman Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Elmer and Esther Hansman Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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