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Robert & Arnold Hoffman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$246kInternational$194kEnvironment$80kHealth$73kCivil Rights$63kArts & Culture$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kHousing & Shelter$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKE USA FOUNDATION$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICES$10,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$10,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) USA$10,000
UNHCR$8,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$8,000
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE$8,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$6,000
HEALING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REFUGE$4,500
TUSCON WILDLIFE CENTER$4,500
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$4,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$4,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
UT
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$806k · 64 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
21

Total granted

$806k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+19%

Still filing today

56%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthOther

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

  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +43%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +98%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF US
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
7
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
8
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
9
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
10
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
11
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
12
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsEquine Therapy ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $68,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $43,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE — $35,000 · OtherMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BROOKE — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BROOKEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $23,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYBROOKE USA — $23,000 · OtherBROOKE USAAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — $22,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONALACLU — $20,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA — $15,000 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) USA — $15,000 · Other+41 more — $96,750 · Other+41 moreDefenders of Wildlife — $65,010 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION IN…BROOKE USA INC — $20,000 · AnimalsBROOKE USA INCTucson Wildlife Center Inc — $17,700 · AnimalsTucson Wildlife Center IncHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC — $16,000 · AnimalsHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON I…NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $13,500 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMER…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $9,000 · Animals+13 more — $41,550 · Animals+13 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…United States Association for UNHCR — $13,000 · InternationalUnited Stat…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $13,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA N…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,000 · International+2 more — $2,300 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $37,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILD…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $22,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONS…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $4,800 · EnvironmentTHE WILDER…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,600 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Museum of Natural History — $11,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $10,350 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $8,200 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $4,325 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $3,000 · EducationASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $500 · Education
Other$401,250Animals$224,260International$84,300Environment$76,400Arts & Culture$44,875Human Services$6,500Education$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $65,010 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKE USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTucson Wildlife Center Inc — $17,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC — $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $10,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $8,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation — $5,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $4,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM — $4,325 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL FRIENDS INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARVARD LIBRARY IN NEW YORK — $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Defenders of Wildlife
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds BROOKE USA INC
  • Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc
  • Who funds HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR
  • Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art
  • Who funds LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC
  • Who funds Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation
  • Who funds Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary
  • Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc
  • Who funds Healing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge
  • Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Haugh Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good

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 Robert & Arnold Hoffman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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