How much does The Hanson Family Foundation Inc give?

The Hanson Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $41,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hanson Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Health (9%), Employment (8%).

Who are The Hanson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ecologistics Inc ($39k), Teton Regional Land Trust Inc ($33k), Growing Home Inc ($19k).

Does The Hanson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hanson Family Foundation Inc 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 Hanson Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Evanston Community Foundation.

Where is The Hanson Family Foundation Inc based?

The Hanson Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

The Hanson Family Foundation Inc

The Hanson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hanson Family Foundation Inc

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

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.

Environment$121kHealth$23kEmployment$21kReligion$18kScience & Tech$15kHousing & Shelter$13kCrime & Legal$12kEducation$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $31k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$543k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ECOLOGISTICS	$10,000
NAMI MONTGOMERY CO MD	$6,000
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST	$4,000
CLEARN AIR TASK FORCE	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
CIRCLES CIPHERS	$2,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS	$2,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES	$2,000
ICDI	$1,000
FIREBIRD COMM ARTS	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$1,000
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION	$1,000
YOUTH AND OPPORTUNITY UNITED	$1,000
EVENSTON SCHOLARS	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$271k · 29 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$271k

$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%

-10%

Still filing today

76%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationEmploymentHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

EI
ECOLOGISTICS INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +275%
TR
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +300%
GH
GROWING HOME INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +86%

Funded once

RT
RESOURCE TRAINING CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +40%
SHARE OUR STRENGTH
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -44%
3
350ORG
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -26%

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.

Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The International Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

23/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$124,750Other$118,500Employment$20,750International$17,500Youth Development$11,000Education$11,000Health$8,000

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL21.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Evanston Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Forefront · Helen V Brach Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Hanson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hanson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

10report 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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