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Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$626k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
9
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

International$425kEducation$217kRecreation & Sports$119kHealth$38kReligion$25kHuman Services$14kAnimals$13kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k18 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $337k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY FUND$130,000
SUFFERN HIGH SCHOOLATHLETIC$107,000
GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT$100,000
UGA FOUNDATION$40,000
COLLEGE OF MT ST VINCENT$40,000
SCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK$32,000
LASALLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
THE NEW SCHOOL$25,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$20,000
URSULINE SCHOOL$19,500
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY$15,000
ATHLETES AND CAUSES$10,000
SYNERGOS$10,000
GHANA-AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEV INITIATIVE$10,000
THE RESOLUTION PROJECT$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFE STORY CLUB: $4k → 20%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

NH
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 16 repeat orgs$372k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$442k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+43%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropySocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther
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 MOUNT SAINT VINCENT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $53k · revenue +36%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +160%
  • TN
    The New School
    2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +24%
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +43%
  • SC
    ST CABRINI NURSING HOME
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
9
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
10
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction; the most unlike its peers is Pound Ridge Fire Departmentinc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUFFERN HIGH SCHOOLATHLETIC: $109,000 · OtherSUFFERN HIGH SCHOOLATHLETICSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $75,000 · OtherSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK…URSULINE SCHOOL OF NEW ROCHELLE: $29,500 · OtherURSULINE SCHOOL OF NEW ROCHELLEIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $15,000 · Other+18 more: $92,500 · Other+18 moreGlobal Solidarity Fund: $130,000 · InternationalGlobal Solidarity FundGlobal Impact: $65,000 · InternationalGlobal ImpactTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC+2 more: $7,500 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $52,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SA…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEOR…The New School: $27,500 · EducationThe New SchoolMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY IN…CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $12,000 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF …+4 more: $11,000 · Education+4 moreGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL POVER…LA SALLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyACTT NATURALLY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsPROSTATE ACTION INC: $4,500 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $4,000 · HealthCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $2,500 · Health
Other$337,000International$222,500Education$173,000Social Science$100,000Philanthropy$32,000Animals$13,000Health$11,000

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 budgetGlobal Solidarity Fund: $130,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTT NATURALLY INC: $13,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMMANUEL SCHOOL OF MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPROSTATE ACTION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE STORY CLUB: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPOUND RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENTINC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREY WHITFIELD SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrewster Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILGRIMAGE FOR OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE: $1,000 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.

Gates FoundationThe Campbell Family F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Raskob Foundation for…The Rockefeller Found…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Verizon Foundation
Gates FoundationWA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The Campbell Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Albertus Magnus College: 6% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hoffman Brothers Foundation Inc 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 44 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home