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Hoffen 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.

$254k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$961kInternational$869kPhilanthropy$393kReligion$280kSocial Science$248kScience & Tech$50kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
$1,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$105,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVERDALE JEWISH CENTER$8,800
MECHON HADAR$5,500
THE AUSCHWITZ JEWISH CENTER$1,800
MACHNE ISRAEL - COLEL CHABAD$1,800
CHABAD AT COLUMBIA INC$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
IDA CROWN ACADEMY$1,800
SALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMY$1,800
LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE$1,800
SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE$1,000
COLEL CHABAD$720
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $500 → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $4k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $180 → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 41 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
52

Total granted

$3.0M
$372k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+30%

Still filing today

56%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +58%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $361k · revenue +37%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $358k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue -51%
  • SI
    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
6
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
10
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
11
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
12
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

56 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. 56 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,510,714 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $361,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $133,500 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL+5 more: $53,600 · EducationAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATI…HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $243,287 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: $160,500 · OtherHirshhorn Museum and Sc…LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC: $103,750 · OtherLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGU…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Other+57 more: $195,183 · Other+57 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $510,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEU…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $255,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMON…+6 more: $40,300 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $187,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $140,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT …FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $38,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · International+5 more: $30,400 · International+5 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $358,220 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $76,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $21,600 · Philanthropy+2 more: $17,200 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $100,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,800 · ReligionMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,600 · HealthIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $3,000 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $2,000 · Health+3 more: $1,620 · Health
Education$2,058,814Other$1,052,720Arts & Culture$805,300International$491,200Philanthropy$473,020Religion$109,800Health$40,220

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,510,714 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $510,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $361,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $358,220 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $255,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $187,800 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $133,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $76,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $38,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $26,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $21,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFENCERS CLUB INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREUT USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROOF SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $2,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $720 over 4y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …FjcNash Family FoundationNational Philanthropi…Jewish Federation of …The Jewish Federation…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Kolatch Family Founda…Ahba Inc
Jewish Communal FundNY30.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Nash Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Kolatch Family Foundation · Ahba Inc

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 Hoffen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoffen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Hoffen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hoffen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 104 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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