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Hofmeister 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$253kHealth$215kReligion$195kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$5kPublic Benefit$4kYouth Development$2kCommunity Improvement$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $141k
$200
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLESSING FOUNDATION INC$40,200
CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE$40,000
HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH$26,000
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY$20,000
CHEERFUL HOME$15,000
DOWN COUNTRY$1,000
QUINCY MUSEUM$500
WEST CENTRAL IL AREA AGENCY ON AGIN$500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$344
Individual grant recipient$250
QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$200
BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC PARISH$100
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS$100
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH$100
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $40 → 14%CHEERFUL HOME: $15k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $15k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $7k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $5k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $3k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $3k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $2k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $2k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
NY
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IN
OH
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VA
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GA
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FL

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$727k · 32 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
35

Total granted

$727k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TB
    THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +210%
  • CH
    CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +57%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +3%
  • QP
    QUINCY PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $250
  • QN
    QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue -1%

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
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
2
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Dr Richard Eells House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsFallen First Responder Supp…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsYmca Community CentersVeteran Support ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Early Childhood Education C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr22%51%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr15%0%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr22%58%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,319

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE — $207,100 · EducationCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGEST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY+4 more — $5,220 · EducationTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC — $210,750 · HealthTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC+8 more — $4,271 · HealthHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $193,618 · OtherHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH+45 more — $9,767 · OtherCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION — $52,000 · Human Services+2 more — $540 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $3,050 · Public BenefitDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $800 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $150 · Public BenefitTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC — $1,200 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE — $700 · Arts & CultureQUINCY ART CENTER — $200 · Arts & CultureQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE — $100 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY — $100 · Arts & CultureQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS — $100 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,614 · Youth Development
Education$252,320Health$215,021Other$203,385Human Services$52,540Public Benefit$4,000Arts & Culture$2,450Youth Development$1,614

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC — $210,750 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE — $207,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION — $52,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $3,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEUREKA COLLEGE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN COUNTRY — $2,621 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $1,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,614 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC — $1,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE — $700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetQUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY ART CENTER — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $27 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP CALLAHAN INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EUREKA COLLEGE
  • Who funds DOWN COUNTRY
  • Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE QUINCY MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE
  • Who funds QUINCY PARK BAND INC
  • Who funds QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION
  • Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  • Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC

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.

Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Michelmann Foundation · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Hofmeister 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hofmeister Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hofmeister Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 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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