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The Hobbs Foundation at a glance

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The Hobbs 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.

$879k
Granted FY2023
99
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$203k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$767kPhilanthropy$376kReligion$353kArts & Culture$205kHealth$182kEnvironment$141kYouth Development$137kRecreation & Sports$104kOther$0
02FY2023 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 99 grants below total $809,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $879,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k79 grants · $250k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $357k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $203k
$3,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bruce and Emilie Reid Family Foundation$203,000
All Saints Episcopal Church$35,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of the River Region$35,000
Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation$30,000
Crimson Tide Foundation, University of Alabama$25,000
Valiant Cross Academy$24,000
Linville Foundation$22,000
University of the South$22,000
Brantwood Children's Home$19,000
University of Alabama$17,000
Samaritan Counseling Center$16,000
Montgomery Zoological Society Annual Giving$16,000
Charlotte Country Day School$15,500
Montgomery Academy Annual Giving$15,000
Renascence$14,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 128 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

128 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2023, 46 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
27

Total granted

$2.4M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

39%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +30%
  • VC
    VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $87k · revenue +13%
  • TS
    THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN
    4× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Montgomery Clean City Commission
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HC
    Holy Cross School
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • AC
    American Cancer Society - Montgomery, AL Chapter
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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.

03Its 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
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission On Colleges Inc

The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…

Education
7
Wofford College

The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…

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8
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
9
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry; the most unlike its peers is Wards Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 173 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bruce and Emilie Reid Family Foundation: $203,000 · OtherBruce and Emilie Reid Family FoundationMontgomery Academy Annual Giving: $188,500 · OtherMontgomery Academy Annual GivingChurch of the Ascension, Annual Giving: $156,500 · OtherChurch of the Ascension, Annual GivingAll Saints Episcopal Church: $82,000 · OtherMontgomery Zoological Society Annual Giving: $75,000 · Other+137 more: $1,274,500 · Other+137 moreVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY: $87,000 · EducationVALIANT CROS…LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $54,500 · EducationLINVILLE FOU…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $53,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…HUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $47,500 · EducationHUNTINGDON C…CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationCHARLOTTE CO…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $12,500 · Education+4 more: $27,500 · Education+4 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN: $61,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $41,500 · Arts & CultureCAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMint Museum Auxiliary: $9,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $61,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentTHE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $8,000 · Environment
Other$1,979,500Education$312,500Youth Development$105,000Human Services$103,000Arts & Culture$95,000Philanthropy$93,000Environment$88,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC: $105,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY: $87,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN: $61,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $61,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $57,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $54,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $41,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRenascence Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $29,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJACKSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI: $16,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $14,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA CHILD'S PLACE OF CHARLOTTE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMint Museum Auxiliary: $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 over 3y, 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
  • Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
  • Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Renascence Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI ↗

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.

Gordy-Mead-Britton Fo…The S Adam Schloss Fo…Arthur M Britton Foun…The J K Lowder Family…Kiwanis Club of Montg…The Daniel Foundation…B Stephen Schloss Fou…Central Alabama Commu…The Landa FundLoeb Family Foundatio…Crum Family Charitabl…We3 Fund
Gordy-Mead-Britton FoundationAL41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · We3 Fund

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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hobbs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hobbs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 173 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 (FY2025) is on record and reports $440k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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