Illinois · Private foundation
Hoffer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $478k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Hoffer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $478k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $436k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $618k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $723k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $859k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $262k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Judson University a Baptist Institution | $494,090 | 6 | 0% |
| Food for Greater Elgin Inc | $443,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action | $320,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Elgin Community College Foundation | $106,075 | 2 | 5% |
| Fellowship Housing Corporation | $66,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pads of Elgin Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $48,065 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($634k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hoffer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Efs Foundation · Seigle Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Motorola Solutions Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · United Way of Elgin Inc · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
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About Hoffer Foundation
- How much does Hoffer Foundation give?
- Hoffer Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $477,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hoffer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Hoffer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc ($1.0M), Judson University a Baptist Institution ($494k), Food for Greater Elgin Inc ($443k).
- Does Hoffer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hoffer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hoffer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Efs Foundation, Seigle Foundation, Grand Victoria Foundation.
- Where is Hoffer Foundation based?
- Hoffer Foundation is based in IL.
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