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Hoehl Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2022
78
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of Hoehl Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 78 grants below total $2,165,707 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,212,021 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,046,314 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k18 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $855k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $568k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$12,679
Median grant
6
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTS$400,000
Ronald McDonald House$250,000
Champlain Housing Trust$100,000
COTS$100,000
Generator$63,000
John Graham Housing & Services$54,602
Aunt Dot's Place$50,547
The Forman School$50,000
Turning Point Center$50,000
Spectrum Youth & Family Services$50,000
HOPE$50,000
HomeShare VT$40,000
Cancer Patient Support Foundation$40,000
Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform$30,000
UVM Home Health & Hospice/Respite House$30,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
64

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+52%

Still filing today

74%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • SC
    STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
    2× · 2020–2022 · $375k · revenue +9%
  • LC
    LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $130k · revenue +69%
  • SY
    SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $110k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CH
    Community Housing Trust
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $122k · revenue +68%
  • L
    Lund
    one grant, 2020 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
2
The North End Food Pantry Inc

The North End Food Pantry is a volunteer-run organization located in the North End of Burlington, Vermont, dedicated to providing free food, clothing, and personal care items to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
3
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc

To enable people to cope with, and reduce the hardships of poverty; create sustainable self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination of poverty.

Human Services
4
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
5
Community Harvest of Central Vermont

We bring our community together through gleaning to recover surplus food produced on area farms to feed those with limited access to nutritious, fresh local food, and in the process help the community to gain a greater awareness and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc

Center provides a supportive gathering place for community members over the age of 50 with free & donation based programs. These programs promote social, physical & emotional wellbeing

Community Improvement
7
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…

Human Services
8
Vermont Association of Senior Centers and Meal Providers

To cultivate a unified voice and dynamic network of senior centers, meal providers, and professionals committed to excellence and responsive to the needs of the states growing older population.

Human Services
9
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
10
Shelburne Food Shelf Inc

To improve food security for community members of shelburne through food distribution and to provide emergency assistance grants, while preserving the dignity of our shoppers.

Human Services
11
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
12
Valley Cares Inc

Create and provide a continuum of quality affordable housing and eldercare services for the residents of the west river valley and beyond, in cooperation with the community organizations and agencies that serve them.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maquam Bay of Missisquoi 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Community Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Childhood Cancer SupportUnited Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence and Sexua…Community Hospital SystemsAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community FederationsSenior Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterHospice and Palliative CareFood Pantries and AssistanceEarly Childhood Care CentersChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Addiction & Mental Health T…Local History MuseumsYouth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr17%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%3%<5yr12%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr20%15%20–35yr16%63%35–55yr17%8%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
8%
488/6,031

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.

03the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
52/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ronald McDonald House — $250,000 · OtherRonald McDonald HouseCommunity Housing Trust — $200,000 · OtherCommunity Housing TrustHOPE — $137,000 · OtherHOPELund — $110,000 · OtherSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 · OtherLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $130,000 · Other+80 more — $1,608,315 · Other+80 moreCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $615,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMITTEE ON TEMPOR…CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCHAMPLAIN HOUSING T…The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc — $64,602 · Housing & ShelterThe John W Graham E…ANEW PLACE INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterANEW PLACE INC+4 more — $27,000 · Housing & ShelterSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $375,000 · HealthSTERN CENTER F…Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc — $80,000 · HealthVermont Founda…CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM — $75,000 · HealthCANCER PATIENT…VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA — $70,000 · HealthVERMONTS CAMP …Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $27,500 · HealthSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc — $27,679 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER — $20,857 · Human ServicesLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor — $15,000 · Human Services+7 more — $43,293 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $122,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Rutland County — $40,000 · Youth Development20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $20,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentVERMONT FOODBANK — $75,000 · Food & NutritionAunt Dot's Place Inc — $50,547 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $20,000 · Food & NutritionRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF — $16,811 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC — $12,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSFORD FOOD SHELF INC — $10,200 · Food & NutritionLAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $8,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CURTIS FUND INC — $100,000 · EducationVermont Law School — $40,000 · EducationCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · Education
Other$2,535,315Housing & Shelter$861,602Health$652,500Human Services$366,829Youth Development$222,000Food & Nutrition$192,558Education$170,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $615,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $375,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $130,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $122,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CURTIS FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVermont Foundation of Recovery Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM — $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA — $70,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc — $64,602 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGENERATOR INC — $63,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetANEW PLACE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAunt Dot's Place Inc — $50,547 over 1y, 14% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Law School — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Rutland County — $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $34,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated — $30,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVermonters for Criminal Justice Reform — $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc — $27,679 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAddison County Home Health Hospice Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEnd of Life Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER — $20,857 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetTURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISON COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc — $19,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF — $16,811 over 2y, 11% of budgetPEOPLE'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC — $12,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION — $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKINGDOM COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $11,293 over 1y, 14% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIN — $10,397 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPITTSFORD FOOD SHELF INC — $10,200 over 1y, 14% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Vermont FoodbankNational Life Group C…Richard E and Deborah…United Way of Northwe…Agnes M Lindsay TrustPeoples United Commun…The Redducs Chartered…George W Mergens Foun…Community Bank Na Fou…Mascoma Bank Foundati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT89.8× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Vermont Foodbank · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Redducs Chartered Foundation Corp · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Mascoma Bank 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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