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Hoefer Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$780kArts & Culture$710kHealth$380kHuman Services$217kInternational$165kRecreation & Sports$154kScience & Tech$126kAnimals$99kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILOLI$103,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$70,000
MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$25,000
COFAM (FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION)$25,000
HOSPITAL DE LA FAMILIA FOUNDATION$25,000
CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION$25,000
NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD MUSEUM$20,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$10,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$10,000
SFMOMA$10,000
NORDSTROM HOME & SCHOOL CLUB$8,000
CALL PRIMROSE$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FROST & SULLIVAN INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%FROST & SULLIVAN INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $15k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOUSE: $15k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOUSE: $15k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOUSE: $10k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOUSE: $10k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOUSE: $5k → 12%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 10%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $11k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $11k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $6k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
AR
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 65 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
53

Total granted

$2.7M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+12%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +37%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $208k · revenue +39%
  • MH
    MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SS
    SIXTH STREET PLAYHOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
4
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
5
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
Sempervirens Fund

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:…

Environment
9
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
11
Oakland Museum of California

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
57/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILOLI: $206,500 · OtherFILOLISan Mateo County Health Foundation: $120,000 · OtherSan Mateo County Health FoundationBURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATION: $101,000 · OtherBURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $60,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA…Individual grant recipient: $52,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · OtherNEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD MUSEUM: $39,800 · Other+71 more: $458,150 · Other+71 morePRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $207,500 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF …HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUN…BURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,500 · EducationBURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDA…UCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+9 more: $52,950 · Education+9 moreSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $216,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF …FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDA…CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE RAILROA…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $67,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENT…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $65,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SC…+13 more: $67,940 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $201,100 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health+4 more: $14,000 · HealthSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $70,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $67,350 · Human ServicesFROST & SULLIVAN HOLDING INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesHospital De La Familia Foundation: $160,000 · InternationalMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $61,500 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,001 · AnimalsHappy Hollow Foundation: $6,000 · Animals
Other$1,079,450Education$678,950Arts & Culture$655,940Health$222,600Human Services$176,350International$160,000Animals$98,501

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $216,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $207,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $201,100 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHospital De La Familia Foundation: $160,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $120,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $67,350 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $67,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFROST & SULLIVAN HOLDING INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,001 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave the American River Association Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNordstrom Home & School Club: $19,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCALL PRIMROSE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSonoma Valley Museum of Art: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWINERIES OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY: $13,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN CALIFORNIA: $11,220 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Blindness Northern California: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $8,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Hollow Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES: $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH CONCOURS DELEGANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FROST & SULLIVAN HOLDING INSTITUTE ↗
  • 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 CALL PRIMROSE ↗
  • Who funds Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds WINERIES OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Atkinson FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…The Sobrato Family Fo…McNabb FoundationSand Hill FoundationBothin FoundationMarin Community Found…Bright Funds Foundati…The Ronald P and Susa…X&W Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA29× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Hoefer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoefer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report 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
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 127 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home