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The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation

Logan, UT · EIN 26-1609090. Reported 61 grants totalling $50.3M to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$45,000median grant
$50.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
44organizations funded
24%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,676,415assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $45,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $515 and the largest $33.5M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 and Up
20 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Hum FoundationPortland, OR$38.9M222024
Hope Street GroupChicago, IL$5,962,230222022
CapsaLogan, UT$1,244,440432024
Stand With UkraineLos Angeles, CA$710,000112023
Loveland Living Planet AquariumDraper, UT$500,000222024
West Valley CityWest Valley City, UT$500,000112021
Lifting LivesFarmington, UT$350,000112024
Operation Kids FoundationSalt Lake City, UT$300,000222024
Marketstar FoundationOgden, UT$225,000222024
Visual Art InstituteSouth Salt Lake, UT$200,000112023
Fight Against Domestic ViolenceSalt Lake City, UT$150,000222023
To Ukraine With LoveBountiful, UT$105,000112023
Birds for Sofia FoundationHouston, TX$100,000112021
Cain College of the ArtsLogan, UT$100,000112024
Project Unite IncLos Angeles, CA$100,000112023
Weber State UniversityOdgen, UT$100,000112024
Dell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars FoundationLogan, UT$90,000112024
English Language CenterLogan, UT$75,000112023
Utah State UniversityLogan, UT$70,000112021
Bridle Up HopeAlpine, UT$65,000222024
Amethyst Center for HealingSalt Lake City, UT$64,420222024
Wasatch Capsa Support FoundationLogan, UT$60,000112024
Association of Charities of UkraineParsippany, NJ$53,000112023
CharityvisionProvo, UT$52,500222024
Creative Visions for Giants of the NileMalibu, HI$50,000112024
Cache Education FoundationLogan, UT$40,000222024
No Apathy FoundationSouth Salt Lake, UT$40,000112023
Hope Worldwide UkraineAtlanta, GA$35,000112023
North Logan CityNorth Logan, UT$30,000222024
Westminster CollegeSalt Lake City, UT$15,000222023
Canyons School District Education FoundationSandy, UT$12,000112021
Little Lambs Foundation for KidsLogan, UT$10,000222023
Sportsmen for Fish & WildlifeMarriottslaterville, UT$10,000112023
Utah Film CenterSalt Lake City, UT$10,000112024
Volunteers of AmericaSalt Lake City, UT$10,000112023
Youth FuturesOgden, UT$8,000112024
Cache Children's ChoirLogan, UT$6,000112023
Salt Lake Community CollegeSalt Lake City, UT$5,000112021
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyWashington DC, DC$5,000112024
Western Governors UniversitySalt Lake City, UT$5,000112021
Utah Nonprofits AssociationSalt Lake City, UT$2,500112023
Community Foundation of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$1,546222024
Green Canyon High SchoolNorth Logan, UT$1,000112023
Utah Coalition Against Sexual AssaultSalt Lake City, UT$1,000112023

15 of 44 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 24%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Education
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$1,209,000$8,500
20221$5,957,230$5,957,230
202328$8,177,230$42,210
202420$35.0M$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 77% of this one's giving went to organizations in Oregon. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Oregon
$38.9M
Illinois
$6.0M
Utah
$4.5M
California
$810K
Texas
$100K
New Jersey
$53K
Hawaii
$50K
Georgia
$35K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $45,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Oregon.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 595 S Riverwoods Pkwy Suite 400, Logan, UT, 84321. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 26-1609090 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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