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The Robert E Hansen Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robert E Hansen Family Foundation

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.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$209kYouth Development$95kInternational$78kEnvironment$69kHealth$64kFood & Nutrition$54kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k105 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$10,000
ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION$5,000
STURGEON BAY HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
JAK'S PLACE$5,000
CHRYSALIS AUTISM CENTER$4,000
JAK'S PLACE$4,000
NEW VOCATIONS AT MEREWORTH FARM$4,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$3,000
FRIENDS IN DEED$3,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,000
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST$2,000
THE OCEAN CONSERVANCY$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
THE HUB HOUSTON$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 8%ISLA MEDICAL FDN: $350 → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%ALSTROM SYNDROME INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%LOAVES AND FISHES: $1k → 10%SCARLET HOPE: $1k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%ISLA MEDICAL FDN: $350 → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%ISLA MEDICAL FDN: $300 → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%HOPE OF ROCK HILL: $1k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%HOPE OF ROCK HILL: $1k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%HOPE OF ROCK HILL: $1k → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%BOYS GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $1k → 16%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%KIDS MEALS INC: $500 → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $500 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%CAMP KESEM: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$670k · 111 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

111 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
52

Total granted

$670k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthArts & 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

  • BM
    BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +98%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PO
    PATH OF DOOR CO
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SI
    SUSTAIN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • P
    PATH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +3%
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.

1
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
2
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
3
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Haven Men's Shelter. 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

113 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. 113 of the 194 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
76/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAK'S PLACE LAKESHORE CAP: $58,000 · OtherJAK'S PLACE LAKESHORE CAPJAK'S PLACE: $26,000 · OtherJAK'S PLACEBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $19,000 · OtherORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION: $17,800 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $16,600 · Other+121 more: $299,945 · Other+121 moreBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGEWellesley College: $18,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeCornell University: $10,500 · EducationCornell UniversityWilliams College: $9,000 · EducationWilliams College+10 more: $21,380 · Education+10 moreThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $11,500 · EnvironmentDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $11,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $6,525 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,825 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,600 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 · EnvironmentCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $2,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · Environment+4 more: $1,080 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $7,690 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $4,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $3,650 · InternationalPATH: $3,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 · International+4 more: $2,700 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,200 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION: $9,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesHope Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesAlstrom Syndrome International: $2,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $2,000 · Human Services+8 more: $7,450 · Human ServicesTHE HUB HOUSTON INC: $4,000 · HealthCHRYSALIS AUTISM CENTER INC: $4,000 · HealthIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthWALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME: $1,850 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $850 · Health+4 more: $1,400 · HealthAmerican Bird Conservancy: $6,500 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · AnimalsHumane Society of York County: $2,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 · Animals
Other$437,345Education$158,880Environment$50,780International$49,540Human Services$45,650Health$16,100Animals$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $19,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION: $17,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL: $13,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $7,690 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $6,525 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,025 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $4,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCURTIS PARENT ORGANIZATION INC: $4,700 over 4y, 21% of budgetSUDBURY EDUCATION RESOURCE FUND: $4,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetPACIFICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUB HOUSTON INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $3,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $3,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $3,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHope Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTOMPING GROUND CAMP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF THE WOODS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…The Springs Close Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Sempra FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Chubb Charitable Foun…Fidelity FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation

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 Robert E Hansen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert E Hansen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to The Robert E Hansen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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