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The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation at a glance

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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.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
132
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$179kPhilanthropy$130kEducation$72kHealth$43kHuman Services$39kArts & Culture$35kHousing & Shelter$20kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k131 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$300
Median grant
24
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY$18,000
HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL- BSA$8,000
DAYSPRING HOMES INC$5,000
ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$3,000
ST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$3,000
BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS$2,000
DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN$2,000
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING$1,500
BOYERTOWN MUSEUM OF HISTORICAL VEHICLES$1,500
JOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR SPECIAL LEARNING$1,500
A WOMAN'S CONCERN$1,500
SISTER SERVANTS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY$1,250
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD$1,200
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART$1,200
PENN STATE HEALTH$1,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $400 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $400 → 14%PREBORN: $500 → 16%BOYS TOWN: $400 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%PREBORN: $400 → 16%BOYS TOWN: $400 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $150 → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $2k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%MARYS SHELTER: $1k → 11%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $1k → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $1k → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $1k → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $900 → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $900 → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $900 → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $800 → 11%MARYS SHELTER: $750 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $800 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $800 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $717 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $500 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $500 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $500 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $500 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $500 → 11%CHILDRENS HOME OF READING: $130 → 11%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

AK
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
MS
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$583k · 182 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

182
21

Total granted

$583k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-16%

Still filing today

54%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +38%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RELEIGH BISHOP ANNUAL APPEAL
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • HG
    HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $700
  • RP
    READING POPS ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +13%
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
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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4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 211 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/114
Grantees still filing
75/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL- BSA: $69,045 · OtherHAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL- BSAJOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR SPECIAL LEARNING: $22,300 · OtherJOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR SPECIAL LEARNING+142 more: $228,997 · Other+142 moreUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $125,550 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUN…+4 more: $5,505 · PhilanthropyBOYERTOWN MUSEUM OF HISTORIC VEHICLES: $10,250 · Arts & CultureREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $3,180 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust: $2,950 · Arts & CultureREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $2,525 · Arts & CultureWCR CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $2,400 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $2,275 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $3,968 · Arts & CultureCOVENANT HOUSE: $11,250 · Human ServicesCLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTER: $7,250 · Human ServicesBERKS ENCORE INC: $4,817 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,350 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,625 · Human Services+3 more: $1,825 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $26,080 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,350 · EducationGOVERNOR MIFFLIN MUSIC ASSOCIATION CO GOVERNOR MIFFLIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,200 · EducationMIFFLIN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $1,150 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $1,150 · Education+4 more: $1,250 · EducationA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $13,000 · HealthPenn State Health: $3,300 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,682 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,775 · HealthMUHLENBERG AREA AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,145 · HealthBURN PREVENTION NETWORK: $850 · Health+3 more: $1,736 · HealthLeadership Institute: $3,975 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,600 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION: $2,150 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,980 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $850 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $800 · Public BenefitAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $635 · Public Benefit+2 more: $805 · Public Benefit
Other$320,342Philanthropy$131,055Arts & Culture$42,548Human Services$37,617Education$33,180Health$24,488Public Benefit$13,795

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $125,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $26,080 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $11,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYERTOWN MUSEUM OF HISTORIC VEHICLES: $10,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $9,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $7,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDAYSPRING HOMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS ENCORE INC: $4,817 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERKS BUSINESS EDUCATION COALITION: $4,100 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLeadership Institute: $3,975 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPenn State Health: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $3,180 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD TO WONDERFUL INC: $2,900 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,682 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $2,675 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS: $2,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $2,525 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWCR CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,425 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $2,275 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $2,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $2,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,980 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $1,970 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $1,790 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,775 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,625 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERKS COUNTY: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,575 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $1,480 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $1,410 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $1,400 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Berks County Communit…The Breidegam Family …The Wyomissing Founda…Blue Mountain Foundat…Penn Entertainment Fo…United Way of Berks C…Farrell Family Founda…Donors Trust IncHenry Janssen Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Firstenergy FoundationTriad Foundation Inc
Berks County Community Foundation IncPA48× affinity21 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 211 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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