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Hoff 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$82kEducation$36kHuman Services$7kHealth$4kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$435k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lutheran Church of the Master$15,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$7,000
Methodist Hospital Foundation$2,000
Nebraska Public Media Foundation$1,000
Grinnell College$1,000
Ding Darling Foundation$1,000
Assistance League of Omaha$1,000
Iowa State University Foundation$1,000
Central High School Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) 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 your 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%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

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.

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.

03Your 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$131k · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$131k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +31%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +36%
  • NM
    NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • IS
    Iowa State University College of Engineering
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • LG
    Lauritzen Gardens
    one grant, 2023 · $1k

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

04Your 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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Mutual of Omaha Foundation
Philanthropy
3
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
4
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
5
Kappa Foundation

Kappa foundation provides housing and scholarship support to students attending the university of nebraska-lincoln, primarily those enrolled in the college of agricultural sciences and natural resources. the foundation supports an…

Education
6
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.

7
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
8
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
9
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
10
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
11
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
12
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation and 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER — $62,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTERGrinnell College — $5,000 · OtherGrinnell College+4 more — $4,500 · Other+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $21,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FO…THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL F…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOU…FOUNDATION OF THE MASTER — $18,000 · ReligionFOUNDATION OF T…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · AnimalsNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$71,500Education$30,000Religion$18,000Human Services$6,500Health$4,000Animals$2,500Arts & Culture$2,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MASTER — $18,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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

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 Hoff 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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