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John O & Barbara N Hanson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$136k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$200kCommunity Improvement$30kReligion$5kInternational$2kArts & Culture$1kHuman Services$1kPhilanthropy$1kHealth$600Other$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$100,000
ANDERSON CENTER$22,218
ANDERSON CENTER$6,266
UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,250
ANDERSON CENTER$1,000
LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTR$1,000
LAKE WAPOGASSET BIBLE CAMP$500
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF$500
ELCA WORLD HUNGER$300
MPR$300
NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR$250
ULC (RW FOOD SHELF)$150
FLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $100 → 6%ANDERSON CENTER: $22k → 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $100k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $100k → 11%LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTR: $1k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $300 → 14%FLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $100 → 11%ULC (RW FOOD SHELF): $150 → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $300 → 17%DOOR COUNTY WOMEN'S FUND: $1k → 8%LAKE WAPOGASSET BIBLE CAMP: $500 → 9%ELCA WORLD HUNGER: $300 → 14%ANDERSON CENTER: $6k → 9%OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: $300 → 11%MPR: $300 → 14%PAKE WAPOGASSET LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $500 → 9%UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 9%NORWAY HOUSE: $250 → 11%NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR: $250 → 14%RED WING YMCA: $1k → 9%COMPATIIBLE TECH: $300 → 14%ANDERSON CENTER: $1k → 9%FAITH IN ACTION: $1k → 9%ANDERSON CENTER: $1k → 9%RED WING CARE CLINIC: $500 → 9%RED WING AREA FUND: $500 → 9%UNITED WAY OF RED WING: $500 → 9%SHELDON THEATRE: $300 → 9%RED WING ARTS: $300 → 9%GOODHUE HISTORICAL SOC: $300 → 9%ART REACH: $200 → 9%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 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
Arts Midwest Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Wartburg College

Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.

Education
4
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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5
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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6
Augustana University Association

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.

Education
7
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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8
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
9
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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12
Luther Classical College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST OLAF COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGEANDERSON CENTER INC: $30,484 · EducationANDERSON CENTER INCUNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherDOOR COUNTY WOMEN'S FUND: $1,000 · OtherFAITH IN ACTION: $1,000 · OtherRED WING AREA FUND: $500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF RED WING: $500 · OtherLAKE WAPOGASSET BIBLE CAMP: $500 · OtherRED WING CARE CLINIC: $500 · OtherPAKE WAPOGASSET LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $500 · Other+11 more: $2,800 · OtherLUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC: $1,000 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalRed Wing Arts Association: $300 · Arts & CultureNorway House: $250 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · Health
Education$230,484Other$11,550International$1,800Arts & Culture$550Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON CENTER INC: $30,484 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorway House: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR CORP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTREACH: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Thrivent Financial fo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Thrivent Charitable I…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Thrivent Financial for LutheransMN14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John O & Barbara N Hanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John O & Barbara N Hanson Family Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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