· Private foundation
The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kids in Need of Defense | $1 |
| Americans United for Sep of Church and State | $1 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $1 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $1 |
| WHYY | $1 |
| Center on Law and Social Policy | $1 |
| Hope Partnership for Education | $1 |
| GWU Prof Psych Program Clinic - James Harris Harris Memorial Fund | $1 |
| American Law Institute | $1 |
| American Constitution Society for Law & Policy | $1 |
| American Indian College Fund | $1 |
| Public Citizens for Children and Youth | $1 |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare | $1 |
| Greenpeace | $1 |
| CHILDREN FIRST | $1 |
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
52 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +23%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +33%- HIHIAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +152%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERYone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -100%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +125%
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Law and Social Policy and the most unlike its peers is National Center for Family Recovery. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 65 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 CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SENIOR LAWYERS'CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL 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: Independence Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable 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 Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.