How much did August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

wheelingstudent

2020

studentwheeling

2021

—

2022

renovationstudent

2023

playrenovationwinter freezefreeze shelter

2024

studentwheeling

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $3k
$10k–50k8 grants · $213k
$50k–250k3 grants · $160k

$37,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

ST MICHAEL PARISH SCHOOL$60,000
LIFEHUB INC$50,000
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE$50,000
WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$43,000
THE SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION$40,000
FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS$37,000
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION$30,000
CITY OF WHEELING - CONT OF CARE$25,000
LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
WHEELING MIDDLE SCHOOL$12,500
ARC OF OHIO COUNTY INC$10,000
RITCHIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 23 repeat orgs$617k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$549k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+33%

Still filing today

39%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SK
SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING
6× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +115%
OI
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE
6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +34%
OF
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +576%

Funded once

HO
HOUSE OF THE CARPENTERgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +33%
FS
FAMILY SERVICE OF THE UPPER OV
one grant, 2022 · $100k
SM
ST MICHAELS SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $75k

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.

Meals On Wheels Inc

Provide meal delivery service to seniors and adult day program participants.

Food & Nutrition

Westchester Institute for Human

Wihd addresses major social & health issues affecting people with disabilities & vulnerable children. wihd provides clinical & support services to individuals, families & caregivers

Health

The Greater Wheeling Coalition

To advance housing and human services to the homeless and to educate the community on the plight of homelessness in the area.

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Meals on Wheels of Hamilton County

Mowhc supports individuals who are elderly disabled and homebound by delivering nutritious meals reducing hunger improving health

Food & Nutrition

Woodley Housing Corporation

To provide housing facilities and specially designed services to elderly and disabled adults.

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Helping Hands Outreach

Our mission is to help create a healthy community where older adults and adults with disabilities want to live and be a vital part of our community.

Human Services

Work Opportunity Center Inc

Provide basic skills and work training for handicapped individuals

Employment

Southeastern Ohio Center for

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services

United Way of Hamblen County Inc

Voluntary health & welfare

Philanthropy

Wood Glen Hall Inc

To provide housing and care to elderly

Human Services

Wheeling Forward Inc

The organization's mission is to provide guidance and resources to disabled individuals with a focus on educational attainment, employment procurement, health and wellness, communicy integration, recreation, housing acquisition, and…

Human Services

Society for Handicapped Citizens of

To provide residential care and services to handicapped citizens of northern ohio.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beyond the Backyard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

15/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,693,500Human Services$500,500Environment$200,000Recreation & Sports$180,000Health$89,000Education$68,000Employment$58,000Youth Development$25,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for the Ohio ValleyWV35.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Robert L& Helen E Levenson Family Charitable Tr · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · Fitzsimmons Foundation · Robert L and Helen E Levenson Family Charit Fndtn · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · James B Chambers Memorial · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda

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 organisation August J & Thelma S Hoffmann 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 550738608 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 41% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation?

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August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation?

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