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Hoag Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.0MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$1.0MInternational$840kFood & Nutrition$636kPhilanthropy$594kHuman Services$466kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BPS Foundation$225,000
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
Spirit of America$100,000
BPS Foundation$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Northwestern University$100,000
Camp Harbor View$52,000
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Bay Area$50,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$50,000
Tipping Point Community$50,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW$50,000
Don Bosco Cristo Rey School$35,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$25,000
Dancing with the Students$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE RIVER FUND: $50k → 13%THE STORE: $10k → 14%RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MY NEW RED SHOES: $3k → 7%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
MS
AL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 35 repeat orgs$783k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
30

Total granted

$8.9M
$584k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+35%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $535k · revenue +50%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • EI
    EDESIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +59%

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.

1
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
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Dancing With the Students. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsSchool District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …United Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 76 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $2,201,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBPS FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherBPS FOUNDATIONEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $475,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCSpirit of America Worldwide — $300,000 · OtherSpirit of America Worldwide+44 more — $1,840,000 · Other+44 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,237,588 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DIS…CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $55,000 · Health+6 more — $81,000 · Health+6 moreTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $425,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POI…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $394,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…DANCING WITH THE STUDENTS — $135,000 · PhilanthropyDANCING WIT…UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $535,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · EducationTHE BOARD O…Riekes Center for Human Enhancement — $100,000 · EducationRiekes Cent…EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $85,000 · EducationEAST PALO A…CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $73,240 · EducationCALIFORNIA …EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $42,000 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $550,000 · Civil RightsNorthwestern University — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $440,000 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INC — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,216,000Health$1,373,588Philanthropy$1,019,000Education$995,240Civil Rights$550,000Recreation & Sports$500,000Food & Nutrition$490,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,237,588 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $550,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $535,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $475,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $440,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $425,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $394,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $154,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY — $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDANCING WITH THE STUDENTS — $135,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiekes Center for Human Enhancement — $100,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $95,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $73,240 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDESIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEL DORADO FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOACHING CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY BEYOND BORDERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLookup Incubator Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The San Francisco Fou…Philanthropic Venture…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The David and Lucile …Marin Community Found…Gordon E and Betty I …Harman Family Foundat…Hrj Charities Inc
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA29.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · Hrj Charities 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 Hoag Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hoag Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hoag Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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