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Hansen Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN FIELD | $150,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| ARYSE | $100,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH | $75,000 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSIONS | $60,000 |
| SECOND MILE HAITI | $60,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT | $53,300 |
| STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| CITY OF ASYLUM | $40,000 |
| HILLTOP HORIZONS | $37,000 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- DADevelopment Assoc International8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
- UIURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $595k · revenue +125%
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY6× · 2018–2024 · $530k · revenue +422%
Funded once
- TSTRINITY SCHOOL OF MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $500k
- PUPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $345k · revenue -24%
- MVMASONIC VILLAGE OF SEWICKLEYone grant, 2018 · $150k
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.
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan Counseling Center of W Pa and the most unlike its peers is Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 79 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 Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN FIELD ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF W PA ↗
- Who funds TEARFUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY WINS ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE HAITI ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREYSTONE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENT ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown
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 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.
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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