· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NDSU FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $105,000 |
| OLYMPIA COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $21,500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW ELEMENTARY | $15,000 |
| ST PAUL NEWMAN CENTER | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $13,040 |
| ROWLAND HALL | $12,000 |
| SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR VETERANS | $10,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +245%
- SHSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +385%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO8× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -38%
- PCPARK CITY DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
- SPSAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 31. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 74 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 North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE SIMON KEITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTERIOS EL SALVADOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Park City Soccer Club Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CERN Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds SCAD RESEARCH 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: 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
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 Terry J & Susan K Hanson 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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