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.

Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation

Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$105k

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 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $105k
$10k–50k14 grants · $222k
$50k–250k1 grant · $105k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NDSU FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION	$105,000
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION	$25,000
OLYMPIA COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$25,000
TURNING POINT USA	$21,500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$20,000
MAYO CLINIC	$15,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FOUNDATION	$15,000
ST PAUL NEWMAN CENTER	$15,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$15,000
KIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY	$15,000
PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$13,040
ROWLAND HALL	$12,000
SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT	$10,000
NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR VETERANS	$10,000
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 49 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

Still filing today

59%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther

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

ND
North Dakota State University Foundation
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +245%
SH
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +385%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
8× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +43%

Funded once

TS
THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -38%
SP
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $10k
PC
PARK CITY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +27%

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.

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

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

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cern Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/47

Grantees still filing

22/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,268,436Other$558,103Philanthropy$145,850Health$78,250Housing & Shelter$57,300Religion$49,500Human Services$23,425

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry J & Susan K Hanson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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