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Aaron A Hofmann 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.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.1MHealth$517kRecreation & Sports$120kEnvironment$90kScience & Tech$70kInternational$60kSocial Science$40kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $254k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION WALK UTAH$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$63,500
OPERATION WALK IDAHO INC$50,000
PARK CITY HIP AND KNEE$50,000
ACES OKANAGAN FOUNDATION$26,000
OLALASHE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
PARK CITY SOCCER CLUB$15,000
PARK CITY PERFORMANCES DBA EGYPTIAN THEATER COMPANY$15,000
WEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY$5,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$5,000
PEOPLE'S HEALTH CLINIC INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 13 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$2.0M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+17%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • OW
    Operation Walk Utah
    2× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +116%
  • OF
    OLALASHE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • OH
    OUR HOME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR TKE AT NDSU
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • OW
    Operation Walk Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Orthopedic Surgery Seminars Inc
Health
2
Walk Strong Foundation

Perform total joint replacments for disadvantaged patients in the developing and underserved countries at no cost

International
3
Int'l Soc of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

A nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to advance the worldwide exchange and dissemination of education, research and patient care in arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine.

Health
4
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
Operation Walk- Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach

To empower, educate and engage women and their larger community in developing countries around the world: empower - provide free life-altering orthopaedic surgery that eliminates debilitating arthritis and restores disabled joints so that…

Health
7
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Study

Research surgical techniques to treat ACLS

Health
8
Anderson Clinic Post-Graduate Medical Education Foundation

To provide comprehensive training in total hip and knee replacement surgery and to afford opportunities for research and innovation in this field.

9
The Orthotic and Prosthetic Foundation for Education and Research

To advance the art and science of orthotic and prosthetic rehabilitation by enhancing clinical practices through professional training awards, promoting educational opportunities through academic scholarships, strengthening the body of…

Health
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Olalashe Foundation Inc. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,000,046 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $63,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCDavidson College — $40,000 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · EducationOperation Walk — $237,301 · OtherOperation WalkPARK CITY HIP AND KNEE — $170,000 · OtherPARK CITY HIP AND KNEEUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEOUR HOME INC — $50,000 · OtherOUR HOME INCCAMPAIGN FOR TKE AT NDSU — $50,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR TKE AT NDSUIndividual grant recipient — $42,000 · OtherCURRENT CONCEPTS INSTITUTE — $40,000 · Other+11 more — $161,907 · Other+11 moreOperation Walk Utah — $100,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic — $35,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ARTHROPLASTY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $20,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · HealthOPERATION WALK IDAHO INC — $100,000 · InternationalOperation Walk International — $50,000 · InternationalOLALASHE FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human Services
Education$1,123,546Other$851,208Health$165,000International$150,000Environment$90,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,000,046 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION WALK IDAHO INC — $100,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetOperation Walk Utah — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetOLALASHE FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $63,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOME INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDavidson College — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic — $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ARTHROPLASTY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE KNEE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPark City Soccer Club Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HIP SOCIETY — $11,407 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMATANYA'S HOPE — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Aaron A Hofmann 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Aaron A Hofmann Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Aaron A Hofmann 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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