· Private foundation
Hoeffner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 41 grants below total $308,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $328,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESU FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MARYWOOD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| PATH | $10,000 |
| EAST TEXAS REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY, INC. | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN OF EAST TEXAS | $4,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER | $2,500 |
| ST. MATTHEWS HOUSE | $2,500 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SMITH COUNTY | $2,000 |
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.
41 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PPPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
- ETEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +85%
- TITAPKARD INC4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CACALDWELL ARTS ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLORgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +33%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST TEXASone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Support economic development of greater tyler area.
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Our mission is to provide accessible, compassionate, culturally competent, and quality health care, affordable for all, regardless of ability to pay.
United ways of texas (uwt) exists to strengthen and support the work and impact of local united ways in texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
To unite, represent, and support professionals who strive to improve the delivery, quality, and integrity of long term healthcare services.
To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 51 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 PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TAPKARD INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Wings of Hope Equitherapy ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Womens Symphony League of Tyler Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Smith County ↗
- Who funds TYLER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Womens Fund of Smith County · A S Genecov 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.