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Hoban Family Charitable 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,811,786
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Hoban Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$2.9M75%
FY202312$238k8%
FY202216$253k31%
FY202115$154k7%
FY202018$195k17%
FY201920$179k30%
FY201821$159k24%
FY201718$143kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.0MEducation$536kHealth$164kHuman Services$158kInternational$78kArts & Culture$64kCommunity Improvement$50kYouth Development$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hoban Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $205,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWood Family Foundation Trust William: $139,500 over 7y, 26% of budgetThe Second Step Inc: $100,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $96,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTeam Impact Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPathway to Possible Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew Art Center in Newton Inc (Fka) Newton Arts Center Inc: $55,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us: $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Schools Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLeadership Brainery Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRed Arrow Camp Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $11,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrian D Silber Memorial Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGolden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmatuer Hockey Assoc Illinois Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIntonation Music Workshop: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUrban Initiatives Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPass With Flying Colors Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Josselyn Center Nfp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Hoban Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Hoban Family Charitable Foundation give?
Hoban Family Charitable Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $2,856,786 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hoban Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Education (13%), Health (4%).
Who are Hoban Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Chicago Community Partners ($205k), Wood Family Foundation Trust William ($140k), The Second Step Inc ($100k).
Does Hoban Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hoban Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hoban Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Hoban Family Charitable Foundation based?
Hoban Family Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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