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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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$725kEducation$405kRecreation & Sports$115kHealth$98kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$69kReligion$50kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYSIDE WAIFS INC$35,000
THE ARTS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION$10,000
WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$10,000
NOTRE DAME DE SION HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ANIMALKIND INC$5,000
HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC$5,000
GREAT PLAINS SPCA (ANIMAL HAVEN)$5,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 21 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

48%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureScience & TechRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WW
    WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $565k · revenue +14%
  • AR
    ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND
    5× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +13%
  • WH
    WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • ST
    St Thomas Aquinas High School
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • GF
    GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
2
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
3
Pets for Patriots Inc

The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…

Animals
4
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
5
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/a Pet Resource Center of Kansas City

To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.

Animals
6
Hooves & Paws Rescue of the Heartland

Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs

Animals
7
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
8
Canines for Service Inc

CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.

Human Services
9
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
10
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

11
Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated

Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions

Animals
12
Dogs Playing for Life Inc

Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Pet Project and the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $310,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEANNA ROSE CHILDREN'S FARMSTEAD — $75,000 · OtherDEANNA ROSE CHILDREN'S FARMSTEADCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONChurch of the Nativity — $50,000 · OtherChurch of the NativityANIMALKIND INC — $45,000 · OtherANIMALKIND INCBISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $35,000 · Other+12 more — $116,500 · Other+12 moreWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $565,000 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAIFS INCKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $35,000 · AnimalsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT+1 more — $20,000 · AnimalsARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND — $115,000 · Arts & CultureWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC — $60,000 · HealthHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$806,500Animals$620,000Arts & Culture$115,000Health$60,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Human Services$35,000Public Benefit$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $565,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND — $115,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $40,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT PLAINS SPCA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
  • Who funds ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND
  • Who funds WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC
  • Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
  • Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
  • Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA
  • Who funds Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc
  • Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
  • Who funds GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hoffman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s 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 · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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