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Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of JOSEPH & ELIZABETH HOFFART CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICE FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS | $100,000 |
| PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| MOUNT RUSHMORE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER CHURCH | $45,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CENTRAL OREGON | $40,000 |
| OREGON TECH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OR | $30,000 |
| NDSU FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| RUGBY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $15,000 |
| CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BPBend Park and Recreation Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue ×11 · 48% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN5× · 2018–2022 · $126k · revenue +213%
OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PPPORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- PVPRAIRE VILLAGE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $25k
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLANDone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
The foundation raises private donations and manages investments for the future use of friends of the children-portland program. friends of the children-portland provides long-term mentors to portland's most vulnerable children.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Ensuring the gorge remains a vibrant, living place wondrous, wild, and accessible for all is at the core of what we do. friends of the columbia gorge works to protect, preserve, and steward the columbia gorge for future generations.
To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.
The mission of the oregon garden foundation is to advance the growth and sustainability of the oregon garden, through philanthropy and thoughtful oversight.
Raising funds for programs and projects that enhance the experience of using oregon's parks and forests.
The Mission of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools is to be a catalyst for increased educational opportunities, achievement, and equity for all Portland Public Schools students and staff.
We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…
Friends of outdoor school connects, supports, and advocates for all of oregon's diverse students to learn at inclusive and accessible outdoor school programs that contribute to educational development, inspire youth, promote personal…
Oregon humanities is an independent nonprofit organization formed in 1978. oregon humanities connects people and communities through conversation, storytelling, and participatory programs to inspire understanding and collaborative change.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children-Portland and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Bend Park and Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUNRIVER NATURE CENTER & OBSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Walker Family Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
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.
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