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The Hanson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE PRINCIPIA | $50,000 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $30,000 |
| DISASTER AID USA INC | $10,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON DC | $5,000 |
| PRIMARY DAY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| RIVERWORKS ART CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC MEDLEY DISTRICT INC | $2,500 |
| KENTLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| COMBAT SOLDIERS RECOVERY FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- LSLANDON SCHOOL3× · 2020–2023 · $285k · revenue +21%
- TPThe Principia Corporation2× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +56%
- NCNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA2× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROCKVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NSNational Society of Arts and Letters Washington DC Chapterone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -37%
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
A community organization that raises money in order to work to preserve and enhance the character of Roland Park, with an emphasis on parks, open space and public areas.
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
Maryland federation of art inc is a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to create meaningful connections in the community through art. its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
To preserve and memorialize the history and architecture of the district of columbia with particular reference to the metropolitan club and lafayette park area.
The Diplomacy Center Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to helping the Department of State create the National Museum of American Diplomacy where the public can explore the capabilities and potential of American diplomacy.
Promote the porsche owning and driving experence.
To preserve and memorialize historic and architecturally significant structures in the dupont circle area of the district of columbia with emphasis on repair and renovation of the historic townsend mansion.
The purpose of the organization is to maintain in the city of alexandria, virginia, a suitable memorial temple to george washington, the mason, which expresses in durability and beauty, the exalted and undying esteem of the freemasons of…
Educational, scientific, and professional society organized in 1871 by Joseph Henry (the first secretary of the Smithsonian) providing science lectures, education, and discussion to its members and the public for the promotion of science,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverworks Art Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds National Society of Arts and Letters Washington DC Chapter ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Rockville Rotary Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DISASTER AID USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Foundation of Washington DC ↗
- Who funds KENTLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERWORKS ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MEDLEY DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC CAR CLUB OF AMERICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARLY FORD V-8 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Combat Soldier Recovery Fund 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Hanson Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% 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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