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Juliet M Hanson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$19kYouth Development$16kHealth$13kInternational$12kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$7kHousing & Shelter$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$1,000
UNICEF USA$523
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK$500
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
NORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$500
WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION$300
NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIE$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIE: $1k → 7%WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $300 → 11%NU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%REGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%STELLA ADLER SCHOOL OF ACTING: $11k → 14%UNICEF USA: $523 → 17%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $500 → 9%ALPHA HOUSE OF TAMPA: $500 → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 5%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 22%NORTHWEST HAITI CHIRSTIAN MISSION: $2k → 5%NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIE: $200 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 16%STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%STELLA ADLER SCHOOL OF ACTING: $5k → 14%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $500 → 9%NORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION: $6k → 5%NU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%REGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%DAVID HOLDT: $9k → 9%NORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION: $5k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%REGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%NORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION: $1k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%NORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION: $500 → 5%UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
IN
CA
NE
MD
KS
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of Juliet M Hanson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 2%.

Juliet M Hanson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 8 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$60k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+168%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +70%
  • SL
    STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +18%
  • NL
    NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • CL
    CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IH
    INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its 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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
4
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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5
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
6
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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7
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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11
Unicef Usa Impact Fund for Children Inc

The unicef usa impact fund for children exists to develop and implement financial solutions to ensure every child is healthy, educated, protected, and respected. we believe truly scalable, long-term impact will only be accomplished when we…

Philanthropy
12
University of Minnesota Foundation

A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Star Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STELLA ADLER SCHOOL OF ACTING: $16,185 · OtherSTELLA ADLER SCHOOL OF ACTINGNORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $13,802 · OtherNORTHWEST HAITI CHRISTIAN MISSION INCIndividual grant recipient: $9,270 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherNU ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONCALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherCALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCHINTERNATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $2,700 · OtherREGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $10,500 · HealthREGIONAL WEST FOU…STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthSTAR LEGACY FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $523 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · InternationalALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionDAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $300 · Arts & Culture
Other$54,957Health$12,500Education$9,000International$1,523Food & Nutrition$1,000Arts & Culture$800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $523 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $300 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.

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.

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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 Juliet M Hanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Juliet M Hanson 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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