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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.

$850k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$375,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEmploymentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$850k14%
FY202415$725k20%
FY202313$626k46%
FY202212$359k17%
FY202112$244k33%
FY20209$137k33%
FY20196$66k17%
FY20185$56kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.0MHealth$875kYouth Development$286kRecreation & Sports$275kEnvironment$150kEmployment$138kArts & Culture$105kAnimals$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bend Park and Recreation Foundation$250,000248%
Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory Inc$150,00043%
Heart of Oregon Corps Inc$137,50021%
Friends of the Children$126,00050%
Oregon Tech Foundation Inc$120,00070%
De la Salle North Catholic High School$108,0003n/a
North Dakota State University Foundation$105,00050%
Oregon Humane Society$100,00050%
Friends of the Children- Central Oregon$80,00031%
Cascade Policy Institute$60,00042%
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All grantees of Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bend Park and Recreation Foundation$250,000248%
Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory Inc$150,00043%
Heart of Oregon Corps Inc$137,50021%
Friends of the Children$126,00050%
Oregon Tech Foundation Inc$120,00070%
De la Salle North Catholic High School$108,0003n/a
North Dakota State University Foundation$105,00050%
Oregon Humane Society$100,00050%
Friends of the Children- Central Oregon$80,00031%
Cascade Policy Institute$60,00042%
St Andrew Nativity School$60,0003n/a
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society$50,00012%
Little Flower Church$45,0001n/a
High Desert Museum$30,00030%
Portland Parks Foundation$25,00013%
Friends of the Children-Portland$20,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBend Park and Recreation Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetSunriver Nature Center & Observatory Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHeart of Oregon Corps Inc: $137,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of the Children: $126,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOregon Tech Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Humane Society: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Children- Central Oregon: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCascade Policy Institute: $60,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMount Rushmore National Memorial Society: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHigh Desert Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Parks Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of the Children-Portland: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable 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.

About Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation

How much does Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation give?
Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (28%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Bend Park and Recreation Foundation ($250k), Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory Inc ($150k), Heart of Oregon Corps Inc ($138k).
Does Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable 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 Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.
Where is Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation based?
Joseph & Elizabeth Hoffart Charitable Foundation is based in OR.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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