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The Dwight and Vicki Hanger 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.

$41k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 22
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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 arriving23$40k17%
FY202420$38k5%
FY202322$50k9%
FY202220$51k20%
FY202122$40k23%
FY202020$62k20%
FY201920$61kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$256kEducation$56kInternational$13kPublic Benefit$11kCivil Rights$7kHealth$3kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$675Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coastline Covenant Church$111,0505n/a
Biola University Inc$54,50060%
The General Council of the Assemblies of God$35,6007n/a
Rolling Hills Covenant Church Rolling Hills Estates Ca$35,5003n/a
World Outreach Ministries Inc$17,20050%
Lead With Your Life Inc$16,80071%
Kumulani Chapel$12,1256n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$9,4007n/a
Sunrise International Ministries$9,10040%
International Justice Mission$3,00070%
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All grantees of The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coastline Covenant Church$111,0505n/a
Biola University Inc$54,50060%
The General Council of the Assemblies of God$35,6007n/a
Rolling Hills Covenant Church Rolling Hills Estates Ca$35,5003n/a
World Outreach Ministries Inc$17,20050%
Lead With Your Life Inc$16,80071%
Kumulani Chapel$12,1256n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$9,4007n/a
Sunrise International Ministries$9,10040%
International Justice Mission$3,00070%
Artists in Christian Testimony Inc$2,70040%
Alliance Defending Freedom$2,60060%
Judicial Watch Inc$2,50070%
Free Wheelchair Mission$2,47570%
Gonowglobal$2,1253n/a
The Heritage Foundation$2,10070%
Samaritan's Purse$1,50050%
Media Research Center$1,20040%
Novo Mission Inc$1,0502n/a
Global Teams International Inc$1,0001n/a
Overseas Campus Ministries Inc$1,0001n/a
American Constitutional Rights Union$60030%
St Josephs Indian School$5505n/a
Turning Point USA Inc$50030%
Young America's Foundation$50040%
American Lung Association$25010%
The Center for American Liberty$2501n/a
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$20010%
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$20010%
And Then There Were None$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBiola University Inc: $54,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Outreach Ministries Inc: $17,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLead With Your Life Inc: $16,800 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSunrise International Ministries: $9,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetArtists in Christian Testimony Inc: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFree Wheelchair Mission: $2,475 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Constitutional Rights Union: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnd Then There Were None: $100 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 19.

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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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA14.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation

How much does The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation give?
The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $41,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (73%), Education (16%), International (4%).
Who are The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Coastline Covenant Church ($111k), Biola University Inc ($55k), The General Council of the Assemblies of God ($36k).
Does The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dwight and Vicki Hanger 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 The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation based?
The Dwight and Vicki Hanger Foundation is based in CA.

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 43 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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