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Bob Hoffman Foundation at a glance

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Bob Hoffman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$128k
Granted FY2022
22
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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.

01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2022 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k16 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLNWAY SPORTCENTER$17,500
Individual grant recipient$15,000
LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY$10,000
BENCH MARK PROGRAM$10,000
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE$10,000
KEYSTONE KIDSPACE$10,000
DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH & FAMILY THEATRE$7,500
YOUNG WOMEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$5,626
PAPPAS HOUSE$5,500
LEG UP FARM INC$5,000
BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER$5,000
YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$5,000
CENTRAL PA YOUTH BALLET$3,625
CULTURAL ALLIANCE$3,000
DOVER EAGLE FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $5k → 12%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $10k → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%YMCA OF YORK AND YORK COUNTY: $150k → 9%YMCA OF YORK AND YORK COUNTY: $40k → 9%YMCA OF YORK AND YORK COUNTY: $20k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $10k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF YORK AND YORK COUNTY: $10k → 9%PAPPAS HOUSE: $6k → 9%PAPPAS HOUSE: $500 → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $500 → 9%PAPPAS HOUSE: $500 → 9%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+2%

Still filing today

61%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF THE ROSES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $220k · revenue +117%
  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +17%
  • DY
    DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • YA
    YORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +43%
  • RL
    RED LAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • YC
    YORK COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -100%
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
The York School

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…

Education
2
York Preparatory Academy Inc

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…

Education
3
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy
4
York Day Nursery Inc

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.

Education
5
Fc York

Youth soccer club

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6
Ysc Academy

Ysc academy is licensed as a private academic school for grades 7-12.

Education
7
21ST Century Cyber Charter School

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.

Education
8
York County Bar Association

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…

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9
Christian School Association of York Inc

Equipping students through academic rigor and uncompromising biblical truth to impact the world for christ.

Religion
10
Yorktown Community Schools Foundation Inc

The ycs foundation's mission is to raise and connect funding to benefit the schools and ultimately our community.

Education
11
Young Women's College Prep Charter School of Rochester

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…

Education
12
York County Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,936,255 · PhilanthropyYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyYORK CITY RECREATION CORP: $150,000 · OtherYORK CITY RECREATION …LINCOLNWAY SPORTCENTER: $108,616 · OtherLINCOLNWAY SPORTCENTE…Individual grant recipient: $86,006 · OtherIndividual grant reci…JUNIOR ACHIEVMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA INC: $36,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVMENT OF …BENCH MARK PROGRAM: $35,000 · OtherBENCH MARK PROGRAMWHITE ROSE PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $24,560 · OtherHANOVER AREA YMCA: $23,000 · Other+16 more: $102,720 · Other+16 moreYMCA OF THE ROSES: $220,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF T…KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $25,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE …ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $58,500 · Arts & CultureDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $15,700 · Arts & CultureYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $46,500 · EducationYORK ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $27,000 · EducationLOGOS ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,250 · EducationLEG UP FARM INC: $42,365 · AnimalsSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $14,105 · HealthTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,943,755Other$595,902Human Services$267,000Arts & Culture$134,200Education$79,750Animals$42,365Health$18,105

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 budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,936,255 over 1y, 11% of 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
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.

  • 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 YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY TOURISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Powder Mill FoundationAirie Knipel Harry V …The Arthur J and Lee …The Graham FoundationThe Stewart FoundationAnne & Philip Glatfel…United Way of York Co…Kinsley FoundationWhite Rose Leadership…Central Pennsylvania …The Donald B and Doro…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bob Hoffman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob Hoffman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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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