· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FILOLI | $103,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| COFAM (FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION) | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOSPITAL DE LA FAMILIA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SFMOMA | $10,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORDSTROM HOME & SCHOOL CLUB | $8,000 |
| CALL PRIMROSE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +37%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE5× · 2018–2022 · $208k · revenue +39%
- MHMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SSSIXTH STREET PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $13k
- UBUC BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PFPEOPLE'S FUND OF MAUIone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
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To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Irvine Museum. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
84 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. 84 of the 127 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FROST & SULLIVAN HOLDING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Save the American River Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Nordstrom Home & School Club ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CALL PRIMROSE ↗
- Who funds WINERIES OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗
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.
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
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 Hoefer 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.