How much does Hoeffner Foundation give?

Hoeffner Foundation reported 41 itemized grants totaling $308,150, out of $328,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Hoeffner Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Education (6%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Hoeffner Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Path - People Attempting to Help ($60k), East Texas Crisis Center Inc ($35k), Meals on Wheels Ministry Inc ($29k).

Does Hoeffner Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hoeffner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hoeffner Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation, Hibbs Family Foundation.

Where is Hoeffner Foundation based?

Hoeffner Foundation is based in TX.

Hoeffner Foundation

Hoeffner Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hoeffner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$328k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it fundsRead

02Its granteesRead

03Its fieldRead

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$725kEducation$155kHuman Services$145kFood & Nutrition$90kHealth$69kCommunity Improvement$55kArts & Culture$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 41 grants below total $308,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $328,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k37 grants · $68k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$1,350

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ESU FOUNDATION	$200,000
MARYWOOD COLLEGE	$20,000
PATH	$10,000
EAST TEXAS REGIONAL FOOD BANK	$10,000
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
THE SALVATION ARMY	$5,000
HOPE HAVEN OF EAST TEXAS	$4,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK	$2,500
ST. MATTHEWS HOUSE	$2,500
LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER	$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS, SMITH CO. CHAPTER	$2,000
EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL	$2,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 42 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+48%

Still filing today

50%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

PP
PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP
7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +61%
ET
EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +76%
TI
TAPKARD INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +81%

Funded once

ES
EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $60k
CA
CALDWELL ARTS ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLORgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +33%

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.

03Its 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.

East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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Tyler Economic Development Council Inc

Support economic development of greater tyler area.

Community Improvement

Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

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Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

—

Texas Medical Association

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…

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The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education

Health Center of Southeast Texas

Our mission is to provide accessible, compassionate, culturally competent, and quality health care, affordable for all, regardless of ability to pay.

Health

United Ways of Texas Inc

United ways of texas (uwt) exists to strengthen and support the work and impact of local united ways in texas.

Philanthropy

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

Texas Alliance for Patient Access

Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans

Community Improvement

Texas Health Care Association

To unite, represent, and support professionals who strive to improve the delivery, quality, and integrity of long term healthcare services.

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United Way of East-Central Texas

To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc; 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.

03the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 53 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/26

Grantees still filing

23/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,708,100Human Services$111,600Food & Nutrition$37,500Education$29,000Crime & Legal$16,000Housing & Shelter$14,500Public Benefit$12,000

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

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.

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.

Ben and Maytee Fisch FoundationTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home