· Private foundation
Oliver-Hoffmann 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LAURENCE CHURCH | $80,000 |
| FRANCISCAN MONASTERY OF THE HOLY LAND | $75,000 |
| UKRAINIAN ACTION | $35,000 |
| ST LAURENCE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| ST LAURENCE CHURCH | $25,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INTERNATIONAL (PATH) | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S VIABILITY GRANT | $24,500 |
| UNDERSTOOD | $24,025 |
| ST MARY ADAPTIVE SACREMENT CHAPEL | $15,000 |
| ST LAURENCE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $10,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $8,500 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $8,000 |
| ST LAURENCE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| PLANO HIGHSCHOOL | $5,076 |
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 (FY20–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 46%.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 24 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EDEQUINE DREAMS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $101k · revenue +114%
- UAUkrainian Action3× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +235%
- OVORCHARD VILLAGE2× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN NEUMANNone grant, 2023 · $75k
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -6%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
Special Equestrians provides therapeutic riding programs to individuals with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for anyone with a physical, mental, or emotional disability through therapeutic riding and hippotherapy.
"to heal with horses" by offering nationally accredited, affordable, horse-centered therapies and experiences that bring strength, independence, confidence and joy to central oregonians of all ages and abilities.
To improve the minds, bodies and spirits of children and adults with special needs through the benefits of therapeutic riding and equine assisted activities.
Provide therapeutic horsemanship to disabled individuals.
To improve the lives and health of children and adults in southwest Ohio with special physical, cognitive, social and psychological needs through equine assisted services and therapies. TRI partners extensively with community organizations…
To provide a therapeutic environment through horseback riding and other activities for people with disabilities or other challenges.
How this is measured
149 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. 149 of the 241 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Action ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MARE Riding Center ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHISPERING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SOLID GROUND EAATC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRED ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Savannah Station TRP Incorporation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Opthamological Care ↗
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 Coleman Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · American Quarter Horse Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernational · Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation · The Latham Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Helen V Brach Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Solid Ground Eaatc: 3% of income from government
- Star Community Inc: 2% of income from government
- Special Strides Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
- Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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