· Private foundation
Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE THEATRE GROUP INC | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD | $15,000 |
| DIGNITY GROWS INC | $15,000 |
| VOICES OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC | $12,000 |
| CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS INC | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC | $8,000 |
| ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +36%
- HHHartford HealthCare Corporation2× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +5%
- RRRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $101k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +57%
- GOGIFTS OF LOVE INCone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -21%
- TPTHE PALACE THEATER GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To provide and promote wellness and independence to ensure optimal quality of life for the people we serve.
Hands on hartford, in partnership with others, strengthens community in hartford by responding faithfully to people in need through programs that change lives and renew human possibility.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Rob the Drummer Educational Programs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 63 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 CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford HealthCare Corporation ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CAPITAL REGION & EASTERN CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc
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 Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
- Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut — 63% of income from government
- Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut — 62% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.