· Private foundation
Hoffman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $414k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS DONOR ADVISED FUND | $413,535 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FDN | $55,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DC | $27,500 |
| ADL | $25,000 |
| HOLE ON THE WALL GANG | $25,000 |
| U S HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIV OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| UMMS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DE PAUL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $9,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| ADAS ISRAEL | $4,220 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue -6%- ADANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2021–2023 · $126k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF DC6× · 2020–2025 · $84k
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
- LALillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museumgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +32%
- HMHOLOCAST MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 53 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hoffman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoffman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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