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John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
126
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of JOHN K AND LUISE V HANSON 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.

02FY2025 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $285k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $897k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $889k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$9,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$1,025,000
FOREST CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$200,000
VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM$200,000
WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$130,000
UNITED STATES SAILING CENTER OF MARTIN COUNTY INC$100,000
CITY OF FOREST CITY$59,000
CLEAR LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL$50,000
HANCOCK COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA$45,000
T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION$37,500
CITY OF FOREST CITY$32,000
LAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER$30,000
BLUE STARS PERFORMING ARTS FOR YOUTH INC$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $30k → 8%COLTS CORNER DAYCARE CENTER: $6k → 11%CONFLUENCE MINISTRIES: $5k → 12%LAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER: $30k → 10%MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 12%DUNCAN HEIGHTS INC: $5k → 8%LAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER: $7k → 10%LAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 10%FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA: $45k → 10%FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.2M · 67 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

67 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
106

Total granted

$7.2M
$3.0M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WL
    Waldorf Lutheran College Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M
  • MC
    Mayo Clinic Department of Development
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M
  • FC
    Forest City Education Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $570k

Funded once

  • NI
    North Iowa Area Community College Fou...
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • CO
    City of Forest City - Bear Creek Golf Co...
    one grant, 2024 · $210k
  • CL
    Clear Lake Development Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Iowa Great Lakes Chamber of Commerce

To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.

2
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
3
Community Foundation for Western Iowa

The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
5
Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation
6
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
7
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
8
Lake View Foundation

To assist with civic projects within the City of Lake View, IA

Community Improvement
9
Iowa City Area Sports Commission

The commission is organized for the purpose of fostering national or international sports competition in the greater iowa city, iowa metropolitan area; to support & develop amateur for national & international sports competition.

Recreation & Sports
10
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

11
Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa

12
Visit Mason City Inc

Enhance the economy of mason city and promote the north iowa area as a destination for overnight visitors.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Belmond Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#18#24#23#19#16#11#22
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%6%<5yr9%12%5–10yr14%14%10–20yr12%26%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr39%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%1%<5yr9%3%5–10yr14%50%10–20yr12%19%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr39%13%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,127

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

60 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 274 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
19/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Waldorf Lutheran College Foundation — $2,260,000 · OtherWaldorf Lutheran College FoundationMayo Clinic Department of Development — $1,500,000 · OtherMayo Clinic Department of DevelopmentNorth Iowa Area Community College Fou... — $750,000 · OtherNorth Iowa Area Community College Fou...Forest City Education Foundation — $570,000 · OtherVesterheim Norwegian-Am Museum — $500,000 · Other+172 more — $5,360,870 · Other+172 moreWALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,155,000 · EducationWALDORF LUTH…FOREST CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationFOREST CITY …TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationClear Lake Comm School Foundation — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $17,500 · EducationVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMantorville Restoration Assoc — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureFOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA — $75,000 · Human ServicesLAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER — $41,500 · Human ServicesGARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CA — $30,000 · Human ServicesWESTCARE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES SAILING CENTER OF MARTIN COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsWINNEBAGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSWEA CITY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHANCOCK CTY ECONOMIC DEV CORP — $62,500 · Community ImprovementUNITEDTOSERVE WITH PASSONANDPURPOSE — $15,000 · Community ImprovementSouth Central Minnesota Youth for Christ Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOMING PRAIRIE YOUTH CLUB — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH CENTRAL IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,940,870Education$1,472,500Arts & Culture$227,500Human Services$182,500Recreation & Sports$120,000Community Improvement$77,500Youth Development$45,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,155,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFOREST CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetClear Lake Comm School Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetLAKE MILLS FAMILY CENTER — $41,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGARNER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHILD CA — $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSouth Central Minnesota Youth for Christ Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMantorville Restoration Assoc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTCARE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUM ALONG CITIZENS CLUB INC — $12,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWINNEBAGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSTEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - NORTH IOWA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEA CITY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBELMOND AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $7,400 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLTS CORNER DAYCARE CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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 WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM
  • Who funds FOREST CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING CENTER OF MARTIN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA
  • Who funds HANCOCK CTY ECONOMIC DEV CORP
  • Who funds TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL
  • Who funds Clear Lake Comm School Foundation
  • Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION

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.

First Citizens Bank Charitable FoundationIA54.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W · Winnebago Industries Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · New Charitable Foundation

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 John K and Luise V Hanson 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John K and Luise V Hanson 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 274 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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