· Private foundation
The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE CATHERINE V AND MARTIN HOFMANN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k131 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $18,000 |
| HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL- BSA | $8,000 |
| DAYSPRING HOMES INC | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN | $2,000 |
| BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS | $2,000 |
| A WOMAN'S CONCERN | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING | $1,500 |
| BOYERTOWN MUSEUM OF HISTORICAL VEHICLES | $1,500 |
| JOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR SPECIAL LEARNING | $1,500 |
| SISTER SERVANTS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY | $1,250 |
| MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART | $1,200 |
| MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD | $1,200 |
| ST FRANCIS HOME | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
182 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +38%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RELEIGH BISHOP ANNUAL APPEALone grant, 2019 · $2k
- HGHOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $700
- SJST JOSEPH'S RC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
114 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 211 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN MUSEUM OF HISTORIC VEHICLES ↗
- Who funds READING SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS BUSINESS EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds WOOD TO WONDERFUL INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Blue Mountain Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Henry Janssen Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc
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 The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.