· Public charity
The Hanger Charitable Foundation
To advance our communities by supporting 501c3 organizations that help people with physical challenges live life as fully as possible.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $273,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $389,868 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,468 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP NO LIMITS | $120,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SALUS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| KENNESAW UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $20,000 |
| ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ENHANCING SKILLS FOR LIFE | $9,000 |
| THE QL PLUS PROGRAM | $7,200 |
| SCOLIOS-US | $6,800 |
| COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE | $6,400 |
| SOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $6,000 |
| KINETIC KIDS INC | $6,000 |
| MISSION SALEM | $6,000 |
| NEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Hanger Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- NLNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS7× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +61% · 29% of their budget
Northwestern University3× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%- ACAMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SUSALUS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +5%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +94%
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.
Adaptive Training Foundations mission is to empower the human athlete, restore hope through movement, and redefine the limits of individuals with disabilities.
To enrich the quality of life of people with disabilities.
Surf competition training for Paralympic athletes
The organization's goal is to foster a healthy lifestyle through outdoor sports for individuals with disabilities in a fun, accessible, and inclusive environment.
The mission of the adaptive sports association (asa) is to provide outdoor, sport, and recreational experiences for people with disabilities. these activities are provided regardless of individual financial limitations and create an…
Summer and winter programs for individuals with disabilities
Provide access to and participation for individuals with physical disabilities in adaptive sports in the state of ohio.this includes power wheelchair soccer, archery, cycling, sled hockey, swimming, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair softball,…
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
The national ability center (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.
Increase function & fitness of children and adults with disabilities through sports and training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenged Athletes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Amputee Soccer Association. 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 22 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 46 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 NO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
- Who funds SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Catalyst Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY TRUST FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Enhancing Skills for Life ↗
- Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SERVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AMPUTEE SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BlazeSports America Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds EXERCISABILITIES INC DBA EA THERAPEUTIC HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports USA Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
- Who funds CRANIO CARE BEARS ↗
- Who funds Texas Rowing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds WIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds DONOVAN'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Kinetic Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS ↗
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: Christopher Reeve Foundation · Move United · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Dralla Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Greater Horizons · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 The Hanger Charitable 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.
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% 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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