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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.8M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOBAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$2,811,786
LEADERSHIP BRAINERY$30,000
TEAM IMPACT$10,000
DREAM BIG MENTORING OUTREACH$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTEE: $15k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTEE: $10k → 8%Newton Wellesley Weston Committee: $10k → 8%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $3k → 14%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+19%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    North Chicago Community Partners
    6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +115%
  • WF
    WOOD FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST WILLIAM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SECOND STEP INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • LB
    LEADERSHIP BRAINERY CLUBHOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • WF
    WOOD FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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
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
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
3
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
4
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
5
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
6
Northeastern University
Education
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
9
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
10
The Family Institute

Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.

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11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
12
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wood Family Foundation Trust William. 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

28 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. 28 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOBAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,811,786 · OtherHOBAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+24 more: $612,000 · Other+24 moreNorth Chicago Community Partners: $205,000 · EducationNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $35,000 · EducationLeadership Brainery Inc: $30,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationWOOD FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST WILLIAM: $139,500 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INC: $70,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $47,500 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $15,500 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND: $15,000 · InternationalNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,423,786Education$327,000Philanthropy$214,500International$78,000Arts & Culture$64,000Human Services$58,000Community Improvement$51,000

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

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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
  • Who funds WOOD FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST WILLIAM ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Foundation for Education ↗
  • Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Brainery Inc ↗
  • Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BRIAN D SILBER MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMATUER HOCKEY ASSOC ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗

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…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Boston Foundation IncAmg Charitable Gift F…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Baird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hoban Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoban Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Pathway to Possible Inc: 84% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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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