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Hoffman Family Foundation at a glance

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Hoffman Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$230k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$725kEducation$405kRecreation & Sports$115kHealth$98kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$69kReligion$50kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYSIDE WAIFS INC$200,000
WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$10,000
HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC$5,000
ANIMALKIND INC$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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 21 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

48%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureScience & TechRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WW
    WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $765k · revenue +14%
  • AR
    ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND
    5× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +13%
  • WH
    WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $70k · 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%
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
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
2
Hooves & Paws Rescue of the Heartland

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

Animals
3
Cares Ks Foundation
Animals
4
Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated

Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions

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
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
7
Chain of Hope Kc

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

Animals
8
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
9
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
10
Operation Kindness

Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.

Animals
11
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

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

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12
The Rescue Project

Our mission is to raise awareness through community education programs of animal overpopulation, disease control, and provide resources for veterinary services in order to help abandoned and neglected animals in kansas city and it's…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Pet Project; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $765,000 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAIFS INCKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $35,000 · Animals+1 more: $20,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $320,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEANNA ROSE CHILDREN'S FARMSTEAD: $75,000 · OtherDEANNA ROSE CHILDREN'S FARMSTEADANIMALKIND INC: $50,000 · OtherANIMALKIND INCCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONChurch of the Nativity: $50,000 · OtherChurch of the NativityBISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · Other+12 more: $116,500 · Other+12 moreARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND: $115,000 · Arts & CultureWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $70,000 · HealthHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Animals$820,000Other$821,500Arts & Culture$115,000Health$70,000Recreation & Sports$45,000Human Services$35,000Public Benefit$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $765,000 over 10y, 1.4% of budgetARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND: $115,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $70,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $45,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGREAT PLAINS SPCA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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
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 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 KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Greater HorizonsServant FoundationRaymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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