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Sandra a Hansberger Foundation at a glance

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Sandra a Hansberger Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$201kHuman Services$157kFood & Nutrition$76kCrime & Legal$73kHealth$53kEducation$43kPhilanthropy$28kHousing & Shelter$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SAN DIEGO$40,116
BORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$40,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$30,000
TRANSITION PROJECTS$20,000
BORREGO VALLEY ENDOWMENT FUND$20,000
CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE$15,090
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE$10,000
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
ORGANIZATION DE LATINX DE BORREGO SPRINGS (OLAX)$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES$5,000
BORREGO SPRINGS SENIOR AND CHILDREN'S CENTER$5,000
OREGON WOMEN LAWYERS FOUNDATION$5,000
MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 11%MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%BORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $40k → 11%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $1k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 8 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$550k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $196k · revenue +56%
  • DH
    DAP Health Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +210%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    2× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • BM
    BORREGO MINISTERS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BS
    BORREGO SPRINGS ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +18%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Bonita Family Resource Center

The Bonita Family Resource Center's mission is to focus on helping the underserved families and youth to reach their maximum potential geared toward a healthier lifestyle with access to healthcare, health education, information, and…

Human Services
2
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
3
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
4
Beaverton Resource Center

The Beaverton Resource Center connects those in our community struggling with hunger, housing insecurity, and poverty to local resources.

Human Services
5
Organic Soup Kitchen

Our mission is to provide metabolic oncology nutrition to support the health of seniors, cancer patients and chronically ill individuals.

Food & Nutrition
6
Meals On Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula Inc

To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.

Education
8
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County

Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.

Food & Nutrition
9
Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger
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10
Daily Bowl

The mission of Daily Bowl is to glean, produce and distribute food and providing jobs to the community.

Food & Nutrition
11
Street Books

Street Books is a street library that provides community resources and advocacy for people living outside or at the margins in Portland Oregon. We cultivate mutual relationships rooted in dignity and autonomy by showing up every week year…

Education
12
Sisters Cold Weather Shelter

SCWS' mission is to unite the Sisters area community in a shared commitment to supporting our most vulnerable neighbors. We strive to ensure that every individual has access to life's essentials - from food and shelter to vital resources…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Hero-Up for Children's Cancer. 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

20 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. 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $195,773 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SA…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOREGON FOOD BANK: $31,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKBorrego Springs Youth and Senior Center: $30,000 · OtherBorrego Springs Youth and Senio…Transition Projects Inc: $20,000 · OtherTransition Projects IncOregon Women Lawyers Foundation: $10,000 · OtherORGANIZATION DE LATINX DE BORREGO SPRINGS (OLAX): $10,000 · OtherBORREGO MINISTERS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherBORREGO SPRINGS ROTARY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Other+10 more: $32,000 · Other+10 moreBORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $140,000 · Human ServicesBORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNI…+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesDAP Health Inc: $40,000 · HealthDAP Health …BORREGO VALLEY ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $20,000 · HealthBORREGO VAL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthTHE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE: $63,150 · Crime & LegalTHE LAWYER…MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Youth Development$195,773Other$189,500Human Services$142,000Health$72,000Crime & Legal$63,150Food & Nutrition$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $195,773 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $140,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE: $63,150 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBorrego Springs Youth and Senior Center: $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBORREGO VALLEY ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetOregon Women Lawyers Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORREGO SPRINGS ROTARY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERO-UP FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Borrego Springs Library: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $1,000 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.

Borrego Valley Endowm…Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…The Oregon Community …Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Borrego Valley Endowment Fund IncCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Sandra a Hansberger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandra a Hansberger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sandra a Hansberger Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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