· Private foundation
John & Virginia Hankison Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JOHN & VIRGINIA HANKISON 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOLEDO ZOO FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE TOLEDO SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| TOLEDO ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| TEDDY'S RESCUE INC | $10,000 |
| NATURES NURSERY | $10,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE WILDS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BACK TO THE WILD | $10,000 |
| MAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS FOR ACHIEVING INDEP | $10,000 |
| HUMANE OHIO | $6,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERISTYFOUND | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ICINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +34%
- BTBACK TO THE WILD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +56%
- MVMAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +49%
Funded once
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +12%- LFLeague for Animal Welfaregraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +98%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
None
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
We inspire our guests to join us in being advocates for wildlife and conserving the natural world by providing fun, awe-inspiring, and educational experiences. by joining us, others help build a movement that cares for animals and creates…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pilots to the Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 43 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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE WILD INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET ↗
- Who funds TEDDYS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE OHIO ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Edward Lamb Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 & Virginia Hankison 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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