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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.

$289k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$580kArts & Culture$207kHuman Services$105kEnvironment$101kYouth Development$84kCommunity Improvement$73kEducation$51kScience & Tech$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$50,000
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE GROUP INC$20,000
VOICES OF HOPE$15,000
YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD$15,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$15,000
DIGNITY GROWS INC$15,000
COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC$12,000
KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS INC$10,000
HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $16k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $11k → 11%HARC INC: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $11k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $11k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $15k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $15k → 11%CHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $2k → 11%JOURNEY HOME: $1k → 11%JOURNEY HOME: $1k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $18k → 11%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 35 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$1.2M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

74%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +68%
  • HH
    Hartford HealthCare Corporation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +6%
  • RR
    RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $101k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +57%
  • GO
    GIFTS OF LOVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -21%
  • TP
    THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -23%
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
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

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.

Health
2
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

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.

Health
3
Hartford HealthCare at Home Inc

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…

Health
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Midstate Medical Center

The mission of Midstate Medical Center is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
6
The Hartford Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.

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7
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

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…

—
8
Windham Hospital Foundation Inc

The mission of the Windham Hospital Foundation Inc., is to build a bridge between the community and the hospital and to enhance the resources that support the Hospital in meeting the health care needs of our community.

Health
9
Windham Community Memorial Hospital Inc

The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…

Health
10
Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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11
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
12
Hands On Hartford Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; 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.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCHartford HealthCare Corporation: $101,875 · HealthHartford HealthCare CorporationHartford Hospital: $86,875 · HealthHartford HospitalCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTEREASTERSEALS CAPITAL REGION & EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $27,500 · Health+2 more: $11,000 · HealthPlayhouse Theatre Group Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Theatre G…CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE…HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD SYMPHONY O…GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGOODSPEED OPERA HOU…HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMP…VOICES OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES OF HOPE INCTHE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreKLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS INC: $30,000 · OtherKLINGBERG FAMILY CENT…CAMP COURANT INC: $25,000 · OtherCAMP COURANT INCBUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PEFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · OtherBUSHNELL CENTER FOR T…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT: $20,000 · OtherBRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE…SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $20,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONN…MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING CONNECTICUT: $10,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $36,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF…THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $10,000 · Other+16 more: $56,300 · Other+16 moreCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $73,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RE…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S …GIFTS OF LOVE INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesGIFTS OF LOV…DIGNITY GROWS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROW…+3 more: $9,500 · Human Services+3 moreRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $101,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $26,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $20,000 · EducationHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $15,000 · EducationROB THE DRUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 · EducationGRACE ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $1,750 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Health$532,250Arts & Culture$238,500Other$267,800Human Services$147,500Recreation & Sports$103,500Youth Development$59,000Education$43,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHartford HealthCare Corporation: $101,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $101,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHartford Hospital: $86,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Theatre Group Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEASTERSEALS CAPITAL REGION & EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP COURANT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT: $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNNY'S JOG FOR CHARITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDER FRANKLIN CHARITABLE FDN: $2,500 over 4y, 11% of budget2-4-1 Care Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLASTONBURY YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE PARTNERS OF FARMINGTON: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…The William and Alice…Farmington Bank Commu…Aetna Foundation IncUnited Way Inc United…Sandra & Arnold Chase…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Zachs Family Foun…Sbm Charitable Founda…J Walton Bissell Foun…Andrew J & Joyce D Ma…Cheryl Chase & Stuart…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT58.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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