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Bob Hoffman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$128k
Granted FY2022
22
Grants FY2022
22
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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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

12
’17
12
’18
12
’19
13
’20
12
’21
17
’22
13
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$17,500
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations Bob Hoffman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202222$128k14%
FY202117$98k12%
FY202021$164k29%
FY201919$324k11%
FY201818$180k39%
FY201719$118kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.9MRecreation & Sports$369kHuman Services$305kEducation$135kArts & Culture$102kYouth Development$101kHealth$67kScience & Tech$59kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YMCA of the Roses$220,00041%
Lincolnway Sportcenter$108,6167n/a
Lancaster Science Center$58,50071%
York College of Pennsylvania$46,50070%
Dreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre$45,00062%
Leg Up Farm Inc$42,36570%
Bench Mark Program$35,00042%
White Rose Pickleball Association$30,0002n/a
York Academy Regional Charter School$27,0001n/a
Keystone Kidspace$25,00034%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Bob Hoffman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YMCA of the Roses$220,00041%
Lincolnway Sportcenter$108,6167n/a
Lancaster Science Center$58,50071%
York College of Pennsylvania$46,50070%
Dreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre$45,00062%
Leg Up Farm Inc$42,36570%
Bench Mark Program$35,00042%
White Rose Pickleball Association$30,0002n/a
York Academy Regional Charter School$27,0001n/a
Keystone Kidspace$25,00034%
The Young Women's Christian Association of York Pa$24,56050%
Hanover Area YMCA$23,00040%
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet$15,70040%
York County History Center$15,00020%
Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc$14,10541%
Red Land All Sports Boosters Association$10,0001n/a
Accountability for Life$10,00016%
Pappus House$7,00040%
York County Library System$5,00020%
York County Tourism Foundation$5,0001n/a
Logos Academy$5,00010%
Olivia's House - a Grief and Loss Center for Children$5,00050%
The Arc of York County Inc$4,00020%
York County Literacy Council$3,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc$2,50010%
The Dover Eagle Foundation$2,5001n/a
Keystone Christian Academy$1,2501n/a
Miss Pa Scholarship Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bob Hoffman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA of the Roses: $220,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLancaster Science Center: $58,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $46,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre: $45,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLeg Up Farm Inc: $42,365 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBench Mark Program: $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetKeystone Kidspace: $25,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetThe Young Women's Christian Association of York Pa: $24,560 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHanover Area YMCA: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Youth Ballet: $15,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYork County History Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSusan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc: $14,105 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAccountability for Life: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPappus House: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYork County Library System: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLogos Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOlivia's House - a Grief and Loss Center for Children: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Arc of York County Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Literacy Council: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiss Pa Scholarship Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

York County Community FoundationPA42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Bob Hoffman Foundation

How much does Bob Hoffman Foundation give?
Bob Hoffman Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $128,251 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Bob Hoffman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Bob Hoffman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: YMCA of the Roses ($220k), Lincolnway Sportcenter ($109k), Lancaster Science Center ($59k).
Does Bob Hoffman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bob Hoffman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bob Hoffman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include York County Community Foundation, Powder Mill Foundation, Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation.
Where is Bob Hoffman Foundation based?
Bob Hoffman Foundation is based in PA.

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 43 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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