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Robert B & Janet a Hoffman Foundation at a glance

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Robert B & Janet a Hoffman 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MSocial Science$412kEducation$372kPhilanthropy$74kHealth$39kInternational$38kEnvironment$37kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$1,000,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$50,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$40,000
PATRIOTS FOR UKRAINE INC$17,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$11,000
ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA$10,000
UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$10,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
PATRIOTS FOR UKRAINE INC$6,000
SUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$1,000
UKRAINIAN CULTURAL INITIATIVE$1,000
SAVE UKRAINE$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
EAST ALABAMA FOOD BANK$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $500 → 6%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1k → 8%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
0%

Still filing today

96%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +916%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $411k · revenue +0%
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • RT
    RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -8%
  • HC
    HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,094,750 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INCATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $177,343 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC+5 more: $27,450 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $411,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE …Cornell University: $355,000 · EducationCornell University+7 more: $14,250 · EducationUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $73,334 · Philanthropy+1 more: $350 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthSUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC: $10,300 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $4,000 · HealthSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $27,429 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 · Environment+2 more: $650 · EnvironmentTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 · OtherPATRIOTS FOR UKRAINE: $23,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $8,000 · OtherFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $4,000 · OtherHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Other+26 more: $20,975 · Other
Arts & Culture$1,299,543Social Science$411,000Education$369,250Philanthropy$73,684Health$41,800Environment$30,079Other$74,975

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,094,750 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $411,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $355,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $177,343 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $73,334 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $27,429 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPATRIOTS FOR UKRAINE: $23,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC: $10,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP DURHAM BEAUTIFUL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ KIRBY SIMON FOREIGN SERVICE TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthcare Leadership Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountainTrue: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Indian River Communit…Quail Valley Charitie…Archie S Wingfield Jr…The Schooner Foundati…Robertson FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Bny Mellon Charitable…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The US Charitable Gif…
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Quail Valley Charities Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The Schooner Foundation · Robertson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert B & Janet a Hoffman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert B & Janet a Hoffman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc: 13% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 59 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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