How much does The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund give?

The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund reported 50 grants totaling $50 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (19%), Religion (15%).

Who are The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Law and Social Policy ($44k), Smithsonian Institution ($30k), Hias Inc ($27k).

Does The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund 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 Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Independence Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Community Foundation of New Jersey.

Where is The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund based?

The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund is based in PA.

The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund

The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund at a glance

· 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.

$50

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$228kHealth$156kReligion$121kCrime & Legal$71kInternational$46kCivil Rights$36kEnvironment$34kArts & Culture$32kOther$0

02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Chesapeake Bay Foundation	$1
Brenda's Cat Rescue	$1
Philadelphia Education Fund Phil Scholars Fund	$1
CHILDREN FIRST	$1
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee	$1
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$1
Kids in Need of Defense	$1
Planned Parenthood	$1
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIAN	$1
Doctors Without Borders	$1
Greenpeace	$1
Cornell Lab of Ornithology	$1
MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)	$1
International Senior Lawyers Project	$1
Natural Resources Defense Council	$1

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 (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 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$811k · 52 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$811k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+108%

Still filing today

65%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalCrime & LegalEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +23%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +30%
HI
HIAS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +122%

Funded once

NC
NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +152%
NC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY RECOVERY
one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -100%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +108%

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.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

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

Federation for American Immigration Reform

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.

International

Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services

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

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Competitive Enterprise Institute

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…

—

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Law and Social Policy; 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.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)

42/42

Grantees still filing

28/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$602,349Crime & Legal$82,931International$63,308Arts & Culture$31,523Environment$27,905Education$15,153Health$8,501

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.

Independence FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeanne and Herbert Hansell Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home