· Private foundation
The Billie and Fran 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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROWN POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MIKE ROWE WORKS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST LEO THE GREAT PARISH | $50,000 |
| BILLIE AND FRAN HOFFMAN CHARITABLE FUND | $50,000 |
| ST MARYS HOME FOR THE AGED | $35,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC PARISH | $27,500 |
| MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| CROWN POINT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DESALES | $10,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its 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
5 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. 5 of the 15 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.
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: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Billie and Fran Hoffman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Billie and Fran Hoffman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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