· Private foundation
Hofer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $50,000 |
| OAKS INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $50,000 |
| CITY LIGHT CHURCH | $42,000 |
| WYCLIFFE | $15,000 |
| WORLD VENTURE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE | $10,000 |
| ASSURE WOMENS CENTER OMAHA | $10,000 |
| SALT CHURCH GREELEY | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| CAMP RIVERCREST | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL MESSAGE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| CRU | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM8× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +134%- NFNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +318%
- BEBRAZILIAN EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CLCITY LIGHT MOSIAC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AAANGELS AMONG USgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +186%
- CMCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Grand forks area youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 61 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPELINK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOREST SPRINGS CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LINES ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
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: Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Hofer 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.
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.