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The Hn (Jay) Hoffman III Foundation at a glance

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The Hn (Jay) Hoffman III 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
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 2025.

Health$39kHousing & Shelter$18kAnimals$12kEnvironment$8kHuman Services$7kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL$13,100
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 (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ALIVE: $2k → 9%ALIVE: $2k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Hn (Jay) Hoffman III Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 44%.

The Hn (Jay) Hoffman III Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 5 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$18k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHealthEducationInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • SB
    Special Books by Special Kids Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +221%
  • AI
    ALIVE Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +81%
  • TC
    The Chris Lantos Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +19%
  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -31%
  • FF
    FURRY FRIENDS
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
2
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
3
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
5
Bridgewater Village Inc

Retirement housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
7
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
8
Bridgewater HealthCare Inc

Management services for related 501(c)(3) organizations.

Health
9
Community Affordable Residences Enterprise Inc

To create an equitable and just community through high quality affordable housing and transformative resident services. We envision a community where an affordable home is available to everyone.

Housing & Shelter
10
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
11
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
12
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; the most unlike its peers is Special Books by Special Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FURRY FRIENDS: $6,200 · OtherFURRY FRIENDSHOW - HEARING THE OVARIAN CANCER WHISPER: $4,900 · OtherHOW - HEARING THE OVARIAN CANCER WHISPERCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $4,152 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUSTIndividual grant recipient: $3,636 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $3,636 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $2,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALIVE Inc: $3,636 · OtherALIVE IncVolunteer Alexandria: $2,800 · OtherVolunteer AlexandriaMove2Learn: $2,800 · OtherMove2LearnHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $11,400 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TRO…New Hope Housing Inc: $2,800 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing …INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYS…The Chris Lantos Foundation: $3,636 · HealthThe Chris Lantos…REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $13,100 · InternationalREMOTE AREA MED…CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $4,900 · EducationCANCER ALL…Special Books by Special Kids Inc: $3,636 · EducationSpecial Bo…BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $6,200 · AnimalsCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,152 · Environment
Other$34,560Housing & Shelter$14,200Health$13,636International$13,100Education$8,536Animals$6,200Environment$4,152

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 budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $13,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $11,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $6,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $4,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $4,152 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,152 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Books by Special Kids Inc: $3,636 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALIVE Inc: $3,636 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chris Lantos Foundation: $3,636 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Alexandria: $2,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMove2Learn: $2,800 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Act for AlexandriaDominion Energy Chari…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Act for AlexandriaVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Act for Alexandria · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hn (Jay) Hoffman III Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hn (Jay) Hoffman III Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 18 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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