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Hoffman York Foundation Ltd at a glance

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Hoffman York Foundation Ltd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$5kHealth$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$600Arts & Culture$525Education$500Philanthropy$275Animals$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC$5,000
MPC ENDOWMENT LTD$525
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TIDES FOUNDATION: $25 → 10%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 9%WISCONSIN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE: $100 → 5%ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $100 → 10%DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 → 10%ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE: $1k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100 → 17%TWIN CITIES PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC: $5k → 13%ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE: $500 → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100 → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION (ACLU): $100 → 17%BLACK LEADERS ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITIES: $500 → 17%WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 → 17%MPC ENDOWMENT LTD: $525 → 17%TEMPO MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 17%COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $2k → 17%LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION: $25 → 17%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 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
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Wisconsin Technology Council Inc

To lead wisconsin in development and retention of science and tech-based businesses and to provide policy guidance to lawmakers, the governor of wisconsin, state agencies, and other institutions.

Community Improvement
4
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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5
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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6
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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7
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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8
Tides Network

The tides entities work in partnership with community leaders, nonprofits, donors, foundations, and corporations to provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, grantmaking, and other philanthropic services.

Philanthropy
9
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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10
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
11
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
12
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dane County Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Mpc Endowment Ltd. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Twin Cities Public Action to Deliver Shelter: $5,000 · OtherTwin Cities Public Action to Deliver ShelterCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $1,750 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INCMPC ENDOWMENT LTD: $525 · OtherMPC ENDOWMENT LTDBLACK LEADERS ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITIES: $500 · OtherBLACK LEADERS ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITIES+3 more: $225 · OtherISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $2,500 · HealthISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…WISCONSIN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $100 · HealthTEMPO Milwaukee Foundation Inc: $500 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $25 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 · AnimalsDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 · Animals
Other$8,000Health$2,800Education$500Philanthropy$275Animals$200

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 budgetTwin Cities Public Action to Deliver Shelter: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMPC ENDOWMENT LTD: $525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEMPO Milwaukee Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC: $25 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.

Baird Foundation IncGreater Milwaukee Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 York Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoffman York Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hoffman York Foundation Ltd?

    Find your warmest path to Hoffman York Foundation Ltd 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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