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The Hanger Charitable Foundation

To advance our communities by supporting 501c3 organizations that help people with physical challenges live life as fully as possible.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$981kEducation$320kRecreation & Sports$227kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $273,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $389,868 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,468 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$9,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP NO LIMITS$120,000
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$20,000
SALUS UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$20,000
KENNESAW UNIVERSITY$20,000
ENHANCING SKILLS FOR LIFE$9,000
THE QL PLUS PROGRAM$7,200
SCOLIOS-US$6,800
COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE$6,400
NEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$6,000
MISSION SALEM$6,000
KINETIC KIDS INC$6,000
SOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $8k → 19%TEXAS ROWING FOR ALL: $10k → 10%COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE: $6k → 9%SNOW BASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATIO: $8k → 9%QUALITY OF LIFE PLUS (QL): $8k → 6%SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $6k → 22%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%THE QL PLUS PROGRAM: $7k → 6%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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WA
MN
IL
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
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CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
SC
OK
LA
AL
GA
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FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of The Hanger Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Hanger Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NL
    NO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +61% · 29% of their budget
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
  • AC
    AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SU
    SALUS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +94%
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.

1
Adaptive Training Foundation

Adaptive Training Foundations mission is to empower the human athlete, restore hope through movement, and redefine the limits of individuals with disabilities.

Human Services
2
Adaptive Sports Partners of North Country Inc

To enrich the quality of life of people with disabilities.

Recreation & Sports
3
Adaptive Surfers Academy

Surf competition training for Paralympic athletes

Recreation & Sports
4
Summit Adaptive Sports Inc

The organization's goal is to foster a healthy lifestyle through outdoor sports for individuals with disabilities in a fun, accessible, and inclusive environment.

Human Services
5
Disabled Sports Usa - Adaptive Sports Association Inc

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…

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6
Adaptive Sports Foundation Inc

Summer and winter programs for individuals with disabilities

Recreation & Sports
7
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
8
Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio

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,…

Recreation & Sports
9
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
10
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
11
National Ability Center

The national ability center (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.

Recreation & Sports
12
Accessportsamerica Inc

Increase function & fitness of children and adults with disabilities through sports and training.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenged Athletes Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS: $774,566 · HealthNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS+12 more: $113,750 · Health+12 moreNorthwestern University: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern…Catalyst Sports Inc: $26,500 · Recreation & SportsCatalyst Spo…NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SPO…AMERICAN AMPUTEE SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN AMP…BlazeSports America Inc: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsBlazeSports …MOVE UNITED: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMOVE UNITEDSOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsKinetic Kids Inc: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsAMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC: $57,000 · OtherAMPUTEE COAL…SALUS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherSALUS UNIVER…ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherALABAMA STAT…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…Adaptive Sports USA Inc: $10,000 · OtherAdaptive Spo…DOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $7,500 · OtherSCOLIOS-US LLC: $6,800 · OtherDONOVAN'S KIDS INC: $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationARIZONA STA…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIV…ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY TRUST FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $20,000 · EducationALABAMA STA…KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationKENNESAW ST…Angel City Alliance: $55,000 · Human ServicesAngel Cit…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE…PROJECT SERVE: $14,950 · Human ServicesPROJECT S…Texas Rowing Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesTexas Row…Break the Barriers Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesBreak the…SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesSNOWBASIN…COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE INC: $6,400 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCamp For All Foundation: $10,560 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION SALEM INC: $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$888,316Recreation & Sports$176,500Other$167,300Education$160,000Human Services$132,350Youth Development$10,560Housing & Shelter$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS: $774,566 over 7y, 29% of budgetNorthwestern University: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC: $57,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAngel City Alliance: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSALUS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatalyst Sports Inc: $26,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY TRUST FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnhancing Skills for Life: $19,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT SERVE: $14,950 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBlazeSports America Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $10,560 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEXERCISABILITIES INC DBA EA THERAPEUTIC HEALTH: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAdaptive Sports USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Rowing Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE INC: $6,400 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS: $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMISSION SALEM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGNOME INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTIRR Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Christopher Reeve Fou…Move UnitedDick's Sporting Goods…Dralla Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…Greater HorizonsEnterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…
Christopher Reeve FoundationNJ30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Hanger Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hanger Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
  • Gnome Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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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How do I get to The Hanger Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hanger Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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