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Hofman Family Foundation at a glance

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Hofman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$97kEducation$44kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$4kPhilanthropy$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHealth$500Crime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INVESTED FAITH$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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%311 MINISTRIES: $500 → 12%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 8 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$156k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+49%

Still filing today

38%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman 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

  • SF
    STONEGATE FELLOWSHIP A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2020 · $76k
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +118%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $18k

Funded once

  • 1M
    1ST METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LH
    LITTLE HOUSE GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Third Future Schools - Texas

The charter school is a model for the next generation of schools, working to prepare students, especially poor and minority students, for the workplace and college.

Education
2
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
3
Teen Flow Youth Ministry

Teen f.l.o.w. provides youth an environment in which the gospel of jesus christ is used as the foundation to develop godly and productive lives.

Religion
4
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
5
Trinity Athletics

To use functional fitness to raise a generation of Servant Leaders in North Texas

Youth Development
6
Hope for Youth

Hope for Youth builds and maintains long-term Christian mentoring relationships with urban youth to challenge and enable them to reach their full potential spiritually, academically, and socially. We serve at-risk youth in grades 6th-12th.…

Youth Development
7
Generation Distinct

Generation Distinct equips to inspire and equip young adults to discover their God-given passions and join the adventure of changing the world for Christ. We create tools for young adults to believe in three core truths: 1) Young people…

Human Services
8
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
9
Relife Initiatives Corporation

Youth mentoring through a group of programs designed to build and restore self confidence and empowerment toward self discovery and identity establishment.

Education
10
Trinity School Endowment Corporation

None

Education
11
Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education
12
Psalm68Five Ministries

In partnership with selected best-practice, faith-based camps, Psalm68five serves fatherless children as it recruits summer campers and volunteers, develops and provides exemplary, trauma-informed resources, and covers the cost of…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity School of Midland Texas; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness 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

8 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. 8 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STONEGATE FELLOWSHIP A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH: $76,000 · OtherSTONEGATE FELLOWSHIP A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $18,463 · OtherIndividual grant recipient1ST METHODIST CHURCH: $15,000 · Other1ST METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+9 more: $10,720 · Other+9 moreTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS: $43,315 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND T…UNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $3,500 · EducationUNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA O…HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $7,458 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $500 · HealthINVESTED FAITH INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $2,100 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND TEEN COURT INC: $500 · Philanthropy311 Ministries: $500 · Human Services
Other$130,183Education$46,815Health$7,958Philanthropy$7,600Human Services$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS: $43,315 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $7,458 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTED FAITH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget311 Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND TEEN COURT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds INVESTED FAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds 311 Ministries ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND TEEN COURT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS 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.

The Henry FoundationThe Mahaffey Foundati…Bryant Family Foundat…The Fasken FoundationBeal FoundationScharbauer Foundation…Abell-Hanger Foundati…Permian Basin Area Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Christian Community F…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…
The Henry FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Henry Foundation · The Mahaffey Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Hofman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hofman 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 21 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.

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