· Private foundation
Bob Hoffman Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Bob Hoffman Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to York County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Bob Hoffman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $128k. 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLNWAY SPORTCENTER | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| KEYSTONE KIDSPACE | $10,000 |
| BENCH MARK PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $10,000 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH & FAMILY THEATRE | $7,500 |
| YOUNG WOMEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $5,626 |
| PAPPAS HOUSE | $5,500 |
| BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| LEG UP FARM INC | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PA YOUTH BALLET | $3,625 |
| CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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 FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- YOYMCA OF THE ROSES4× · 2017–2021 · $220k · revenue +117%
- YCYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +17%
- DYDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- YAYORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +43%
- RLRED LAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
The mission of the york preparatory academy (ypa) is for the faculty, staff, students, parents, and community to provide an engaged learning environment that leads to the success of each individual student, while also challenging these…
To establish york day early learning as the agency of choice for high quality early childhood education and care to children of working families of all income levels throughout york county, pennsylvania.
Youth soccer club
Ysc academy is licensed as a private academic school for grades 7-12.
Empower all students and families to become active participants in their own learning and equip them with skills for the future. we achieve this through engaging content, delvered by innovative teaching in a culture of caring.
The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
Equipping students through academic rigor and uncompromising biblical truth to impact the world for christ.
The ycs foundation's mission is to raise and connect funding to benefit the schools and ultimately our community.
Young women's college prep charter school of rochester (ywcp) offers young women from the city of rochester the opportunity to learn in a single-gender environment, free from stereotypes, where a strong focus is placed on preparation for…
Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hanover Area Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LEG UP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BENCH MARK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE KIDSPACE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PAPPUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOVER EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: York County Community Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · The Graham Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · United Way of York County · Kinsley Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler 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 Bob Hoffman 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.