· Private foundation
John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $897k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $889k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA | $45,000 |
| T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $37,500 |
| CITY OF FOREST CITY | $32,000 |
| WINNEBAGO COUNTY | $30,000 |
| CITY OF BLOOMING PRAIRIE | $30,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 94 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WLWaldorf Lutheran College Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M
- MCMayo Clinic Department of Development3× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M
- FCForest City Education Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $570k
Funded once
- NINorth Iowa Area Community College Fou...one grant, 2021 · $750k
- COCity of Forest City - Bear Creek Golf Co...one grant, 2024 · $210k
- CLClear Lake Development Foundationone grant, 2024 · $200k
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 advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
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.
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…
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
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.
To assist with civic projects within the City of Lake View, IA
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.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa
Enhance the economy of mason city and promote the north iowa area as a destination for overnight visitors.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 268 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- 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 Clear Lake Comm School Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds T L C BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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