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Terry J & Susan K Hanson 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.

$431k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
51
Grants FY2025
49
Organizations funded FY2024
49%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 49
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 49% of the organizations Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthInternationalReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving48$409k15%
FY202449$428k49%
FY202328$400k21%
FY202222$379k14%
FY202125$286k52%
FY202012$192k67%
FY20197$15k86%
FY20181$13k100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$207kReligion$124kCommunity Improvement$68kInternational$67kHousing & Shelter$57kArts & Culture$42kPublic Benefit$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IA
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CA
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CO
VA
AZ
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TX
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Dakota State University Foundation$1,145,39661%
Sanford Health Foundation$120,00060%
University of San Diego$76,50380%
Naperville Responds for Our Veterans$57,30075%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,00020%
Turning Point USA Inc$36,50020%
The Simon Keith Foundation$30,50062%
Samaritan's Purse$30,00020%
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation$30,00020%
The Seminar Network Inc$20,00010%
Ministerios El Salvador Inc$19,5003n/a
Hospitality Charitable Foundation$17,00041%
Otter Tail County Cola$16,5005n/a
Scottsdale Bible Church$14,0002n/a
Park City Education Foundation$13,04010%
Rowland Hall-St Mark's School$12,00010%
United Service Organizations Inc$10,00040%
Arizona Musicfest Inc$10,00020%
Park City Soccer Club Inc$10,00020%
Park City Day School$10,00010%
Naperville Area Humane Society$8,50040%
Dyslexia Action Group of Naperville$8,5004n/a
Feed My Starving Children Inc$7,70060%
Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House$7,67550%
CERN Foundation$7,5003n/a
Scad Research Inc$6,25061%
Independent Council on Womens Sports$6,00020%
Christmas Cheer Foundation$6,00046%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$6,00020%
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada$5,50030%
Three Square$5,05050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
Students Without Limits$5,00021%
California Province Society of the Sacred Heart$4,8004n/a
Street Teens$4,25041%
Episcopal Diocese of San Diego$4,0002n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$4,00020%
Pinecrest Academy of Nevada$3,50020%
The Station Foundation$2,50010%
Nuzzles & Co$2,5001n/a
Concordia College Corporation$2,50010%
The Onestar Foundation$2,50010%
Liberty Ukraine Foundation$2,00020%
Pbs Foundation$1,50010%
Womens Empowerment International$1,50010%
Naperville Education Foundation$1,50030%
Rocky Mountain Conservancy$1,00020%
Brent Sopel Foundation$1,0001n/a
Tortoise Group$50010%
Opportunity Village Foundation$35010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $1,145,396 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSanford Health Foundation: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $76,503 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNaperville Responds for Our Veterans: $57,300 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $36,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Simon Keith Foundation: $30,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Seminar Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Charitable Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $13,040 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRowland Hall-St Mark's School: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Musicfest Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPark City Soccer Club Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPark City Day School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNaperville Area Humane Society: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House: $7,675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScad Research Inc: $6,250 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetIndependent Council on Womens Sports: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChristmas Cheer Foundation: $6,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTim Tebow Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThree Square: $5,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Without Limits: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetStreet Teens: $4,250 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPinecrest Academy of Nevada: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Station Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia College Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Onestar Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Ukraine Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPbs Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Empowerment International: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNaperville Education Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Conservancy: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTortoise Group: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOpportunity Village Foundation: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

American Gift FundDE14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Park City Community Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The San Diego Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable 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.

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About Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation

How much does Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation give?
Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $431,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Health (9%), Religion (6%).
Who are Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Dakota State University Foundation ($1.1M), Sanford Health Foundation ($120k), University of San Diego ($77k).
Does Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Park City Community Foundation.
Where is Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation based?
Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation is based in AZ.

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 74 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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