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Willis M Hansen & Patricia a Hansen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
89% of Willis M Hansen & Patricia a Hansen Charitable Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Willis M Hansen & Patricia a Hansen Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $229k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM | $105,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH | $53,000 |
| UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| NEW HAMPTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| TURKEY VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NEW HARTFORD | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH MO | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA -BREMWOOD | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| DREAM FACTORY | $500 |
| TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 47% of Willis M Hansen & Patricia a Hansen Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- LRLake Regional Health System2× · 2020–2021 · $108k · revenue +55%
- NINortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +65%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +59%
- COCITY OF NEW HAMPTONone grant, 2017 · $75k
- MGMISSOURI GIRLS TOWN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +25%
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.
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy medical center - sioux city foundation is a member of mercy…
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
Exclusively organized to foster, support, and encourage the mission and activites of mercy medical center.
The mission of mercy harvard hospital, inc. (mhh) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service:…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy medical center foundation - north iowa (the foundation) is a…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Mark twain medical center is committed to furthering the charitable and community-based health care purposes, mission, vision and core values. through teamwork and innovation, faith and compassion, advocacy and action, we endeavor every…
Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lake Regional Health System ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI GIRLS TOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY MISSION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MISSION CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Willis M Hansen & Patricia a Hansen Charitable 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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