California · Private foundation
Hoefer Family Foundation
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.
- $447k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $103,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Hoefer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $447k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $360k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $346k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $349k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $290k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $304k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $293k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $269k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $216,000 | 9 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $207,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation | $201,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospital De La Familia Foundation | $160,000 | 9 | 3% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fine Arts Museums Foundation | $125,000 | 8 | 1% |
| San Mateo County Health Foundation | $120,000 | 5 | 2% |
| California State Railroad Museum Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Burlingame Parksforever Foundation | $101,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Hillsborough Schools Foundation | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hoefer Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Sobrato Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain · X&W Foundation
How this is measured
About Hoefer Family Foundation
- How much does Hoefer Family Foundation give?
- Hoefer Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $446,720 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hoefer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (12%).
- Who are Hoefer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($216k), President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($208k), Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation ($201k).
- Does Hoefer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hoefer Family 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 Hoefer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Atkinson Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Hoefer Family Foundation based?
- Hoefer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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