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Aaron a Hofmann Foundation at a glance

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Aaron a Hofmann Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$176k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MHealth$517kRecreation & Sports$120kEnvironment$90kScience & Tech$70kInternational$60kSocial Science$40kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$86,676
THE KINGS ACADEMY INC$23,075
SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION$20,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
PARK CITY SOCCER CLUB$15,000
FRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC$10,000
MONTANA EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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

NH
ID
ND
IL
MA
SD
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 14 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$2.0M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • OW
    Operation Walk Utah
    2× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +99%
  • OF
    OLALASHE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue +9%
  • OH
    OUR HOME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR TKE AT NDSU
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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.

1
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
2
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
3
Stony Brook Surgical 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
4
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
5
Operation Walk Utah

Provides free surgical treatment for patients in developing countries (and sometimes in the united states) that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis and other debilitating bone and joint conditions.

Health
6
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Serving our professionals to provide the highest quality musculoskeletal care.

Health
9
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation; 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+6 more: $83,075 · Education+6 moreOperation Walk: $237,301 · OtherOperation WalkPARK CITY HIP AND KNEE: $170,000 · OtherPARK CITY HIP AND KNEEUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $86,676 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHOUR HOME INC: $50,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR TKE AT NDSU: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherCURRENT CONCEPTS INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Other+11 more: $176,907 · Other+11 moreOperation Walk Utah: $100,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic: $35,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ARTHROPLASTY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $20,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF INDUS HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · 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 & SportsMONTANA EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$1,186,621Other$952,884Health$175,000International$150,000Environment$90,000Recreation & Sports$6,500Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,046 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Walk Utah: $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetOPERATION WALK IDAHO INC: $100,000 over 2y, 50% 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 budgetPark City Soccer Club Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC: $23,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ARTHROPLASTY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE KNEE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIP SOCIETY: $11,407 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMATANYA'S HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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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 Aaron a Hofmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaron a Hofmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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