· Private foundation
John O & Barbara N Hanson Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| ANDERSON CENTER | $22,218 |
| ANDERSON CENTER | $6,266 |
| UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,250 |
| LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTR | $1,000 |
| ANDERSON CENTER | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $500 |
| LAKE WAPOGASSET BIBLE CAMP | $500 |
| ELCA WORLD HUNGER | $300 |
| MPR | $300 |
| NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR | $250 |
| ULC (RW FOOD SHELF) | $150 |
| FLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc and the most unlike its peers is Artreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Red Wing Arts Association ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Norway House ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR CORP ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 O & Barbara N Hanson Family 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.