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Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$109k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsOther
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
FY20237$9k14%
FY20226$7k17%
FY20218$10k38%
FY20206$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$21kEnvironment$7kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$500Health$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation$12,50030%
The Coral Reef Alliance$4,50040%
Trustees of Tufts College$3,00040%
Michigan Humane Society$2,50040%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$2,50030%
Ocean Defenders Alliance$2,50030%
Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association$1,00011%
Detroit Zoological Society$40020%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University School of Milwaukee Corporation: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Coral Reef Alliance: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Defenders Alliance: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Interscholastic Forensic Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDetroit Zoological Society: $400 over 2y, 0.0% 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 8.

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About Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation

How much does Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation give?
Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $8,700 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (60%), Environment (21%), Animals (9%).
Who are Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: The University School of Milwaukee Corporation ($13k), The Coral Reef Alliance ($5k), Trustees of Tufts College ($3k).
Does Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert M Hoffer Family 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.
Where is Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation based?
Robert M Hoffer Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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