Iowa · Private foundation
John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 126
- Grants FY2025
- 100
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,025,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 100
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 100 | $1.9M | 94% |
| FY2024 | 100 | $3.9M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $3.3M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest City Education Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Sailing Center of Martin County Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Forest City Family YMCA | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hancock Cty Economic Dev Corp | $62,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Blooming Prairie | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clear Lake Comm School Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 54% |
| Temple Grandin School | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Clear Lake Development Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| T L C Broadcasting Corporation | $47,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 190 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation
- How much does John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation give?
- John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation reported 126 grants totaling $3,095,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 100 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (8%), Health (8%).
- Who are John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Forest City Education Foundation ($200k), Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum ($200k), United States Sailing Center of Martin County Inc ($100k).
- Does John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, Farrer Endowment Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation.
- Where is John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation based?
- John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation is based in IA.
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