· Private foundation
The Mark and Anne Hansen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $125,000 |
| LACROSSE CENTRAL ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FUND | $50,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $43,200 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN SURGEONS | $10,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN | $2,794 |
| GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| PENFAULKNER | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +39%- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College8× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +47%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE4× · 2019–2025 · $490k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- CACENTRAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $125k
- LCLIFEWORK COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $35k
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bar Association of the District of Columbia. 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) — 2% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 78 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 THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds Office of the Appellate Defender ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLE VAULT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE ↗
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: Global Impact · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America 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 Mark and Anne Hansen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Usa Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc Usawihp — 37% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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