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Hoff Foundation at a glance

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Hoff 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$82kEducation$36kHuman Services$7kHealth$4kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$460k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$7,000
METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
GRINNELL COLLEGE$1,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA$1,000
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY$1,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Assistance League of Omaha: $1k → 12%Assistance League of Omaha: $1k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $1k → 12%Assistance League of Omaha: $1k → 12%Nebraska Children Home Society: $2k → 12%Assistance League of Omaha: $1k → 12%Nebraska Children's Home Society: $500 → 12%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 11 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$166k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +31%
  • NM
    NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +224%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • IS
    Iowa State University College of Engineering
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • DD
    Ding Darling Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Mutual of Omaha Foundation
Philanthropy
3
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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4
Nebr United Methodist Foundation

The mission of the nebraska united methodist foundation is to support the work of the united methodist church in the state of nebraska and institutions, organizations, and projects related to the united methodist church within the state of…

Religion
5
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

—
6
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
7
Concordia Foundation Nebraska

The mission of concordia foundation nebraska is to be the prime strategic and financial partner of concordia university. continued on schedule othe foundation seeks to provide the university the freedom it needs to achieve its vision for…

Education
8
Unf Charitable Gift Fund

The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.

Philanthropy
9
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Fdn

It is the mission of the nebraska lutheran outdoor ministries foundation to provide financial resources for the benefit of the nebraska lutheran outdoor ministries, inc., to be accomplished by the invitation, acceptance, management, and…

Religion
10
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
11
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

—
12
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER: $82,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTERGrinnell College: $6,000 · OtherGrinnell College+4 more: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FO…THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL F…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOU…FOUNDATION OF THE MASTER: $18,000 · ReligionFOUNDATION …ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureDOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $3,500 · Animals
Other$92,500Education$39,000Religion$18,000Human Services$7,500Health$6,000Arts & Culture$4,500Animals$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MASTER: $18,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Fred and Sally Be…The Hawks FoundationThe Lozier FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Sherwood FoundationNE15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hoff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoff 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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