· Private foundation
Hoffer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Judson University | $65,000 |
| Fox Valley Christian Action | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Elgin Community College Foundation | $50,000 |
| PADS of Elgin | $40,000 |
| Food For Greater Elgin | $25,000 |
| Fellowship Housing Corporation | $22,000 |
| Fellowship Housing Corporation | $22,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $15,000 |
| Administrator Justice | $15,000 |
| Fox Valley Hands of Hope | $15,000 |
| Purdue University | $13,000 |
| Cals Angels | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +61%
- JUJUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $494k · revenue +22%
- FFFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $443k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -42%
- FBFire Barn 5one grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
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.
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.
The Elgin Area Chamber connects communities through engagement, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.
Building community vitality by connecting and empowering neighbors.
To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALIGNMENT COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Project Mobility Cycles For Life ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hoffer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoffer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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