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Hank and Lynn Hopeman 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$2.6MHealth$2.2MReligion$759kFood & Nutrition$600kHuman Services$200kInternational$200kEnvironment$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $808k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$350,000
GENESIS COMMUNITY CHURCH$200,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$157,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$100,000
GEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$100,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$100,000
GROVE CITY COLLEGE$50,000
LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTICE ASSOCIATION$12,500
FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY$2,500
TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION$2,500
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$2,500
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NH FOOD BANK: $150k → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $138k → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $116k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $96k → 7%NH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $200k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $100k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 19 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$6.4M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+41%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • GC
    GROVE CITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +48%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    6× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +14%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • KC
    KEARSARGE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
  • FT
    FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
12
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $1,350,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $436,200 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $400,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $300,000 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESGEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $200,000 · OtherGEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DARTMOUTH COLLEGEGENESIS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC — $200,000 · OtherGENESIS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC+5 more — $165,300 · Other+5 moreGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $1,670,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGERochester Institute of Technology — $450,000 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $300,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES+3 more — $40,500 · EducationNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $800,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $200,000 · ReligionLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $67,000 · EnvironmentADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC — $31,500 · HealthFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC — $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,051,500Education$2,460,500Human Services$800,000Religion$200,000Environment$67,000Health$31,500Arts & Culture$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $1,670,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $800,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $67,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC — $31,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY — $13,500 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 GROVE CITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC
  • Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY
  • Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hank and Lynn Hopeman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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