· Private foundation
Norman and Ann Hoffman Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ND ALUMNI ASSO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE | $30,000 |
| MY VERY OWN BED | $30,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HIGH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL SEMINARY SCHOOL OF DIVINITY | $25,000 |
| ASCENSION CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION-CARVER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +43% · 63% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $338k · revenue +111%
- SDST DAVID'S CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TSTHE SAINT PAUL SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · United Way Worldwide · Otto Bremer Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman and Ann Hoffman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman and Ann Hoffman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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