How much does Hofmeister Foundation give?

Hofmeister Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $144,944 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hofmeister Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (29%), Religion (27%).

Who are Hofmeister Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Blessing Foundation Inc ($211k), Culver-Stockton College ($207k), Cheerful Home Association ($52k).

Does Hofmeister Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hofmeister Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hofmeister Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Quincy Area, Michelmann Foundation, Marion G Jackson Char Tr.

Where is Hofmeister Foundation based?

Hofmeister Foundation is based in IL.

Hofmeister Foundation

Hofmeister Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $4k
$10k–50k5 grants · $141k

$200

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH	$100
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$100
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAM	$100
BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC PARISH	$100

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$727k · 32 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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
CS
CINCINNATI SCPA FUND
one grant, 2023 · $200

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.

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

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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

Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 75 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

24/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$252,320Health$215,021Other$203,385Human Services$52,540Public Benefit$4,000Arts & Culture$2,450Youth Development$1,614

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

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.

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

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 Hofmeister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hofmeister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home