How much does The Stanley E Hanson Foundation give?

The Stanley E Hanson Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $3,022,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 87 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Stanley E Hanson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Health (19%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are The Stanley E Hanson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philanthropic Impact Foundation ($3.1M), Orangewood Foundation ($1.5M), Thorn ($1.1M).

Does The Stanley E Hanson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Stanley E Hanson Foundation 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 Stanley E Hanson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Living Legacy Foundation, Edwards Lifesciences Foundation.

Where is The Stanley E Hanson Foundation based?

The Stanley E Hanson Foundation is based in CA.

The Stanley E Hanson Foundation

The Stanley E Hanson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Stanley E Hanson Foundation

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.

$3.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

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.

Philanthropy$4.7MHealth$4.0MYouth Development$3.4MCrime & Legal$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$889kHuman Services$882kInternational$865kOther$0

02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $91k
$10k–50k20 grants · $507k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
$250k+1 grant · $1.4M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION	$1,400,000
FREEDOM ALLIANCE	$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED	$100,000
ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION	$100,000
THORN	$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES	$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$65,000
Individual grant recipient	$60,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA	$50,000
VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO	$50,000
EVERFREE	$50,000
EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION	$50,000
YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC	$50,000
NASHVILLE WINE AUCTION	$50,000
NO KID HUNGRY BY SHARE OUR STRENGTH	$50,000

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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 112 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

112 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$16M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+43%

Still filing today

86%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

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ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +83%
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THORN
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +417%
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THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +125%

Funded once

HF
HOMEFUL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +64% · 30% of their budget
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $150k
ES
EASTER SEALS
one grant, 2017 · $150k

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 San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services

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

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

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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Social Current Inc

Social current's mission as developed and approved by its board of directors is to advocate for and implement equitable solutions to society's toughest challenges through collaboration, innovation, policy, and practice excellence.

Human Services

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. 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

167 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. 167 of the 230 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)

162/167

Grantees still filing

109/167

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,663,475Health$2,630,000Philanthropy$2,285,000Human Services$2,020,000Crime & Legal$1,580,000Education$702,500International$692,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA44.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Living Legacy Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County's United Way · G Harbaugh Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

35report 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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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

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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