· Private foundation
The Hoffer Family Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BNAK | $15,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,850 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| YA YA GIRLSBACKPACK FOR KIDS | $3,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,900 |
| PEACE RIVER BOTANICAL SCULPTURE GAR | $2,500 |
| GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,250 |
| FRED LANG FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF PUNTA GORDA | $1,000 |
| PUNTA GORDA AMINAL HOSPITAL | $769 |
| ANIMAL MEDICAL HOSPITAL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $356 |
| ELENTON ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $254 |
| VISUAL ARTS CENTER | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +88% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC5× · 2018–2022 · $76k · revenue +112%- TATHE ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +52%
- TYTHE YAH-YAH GIRLS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
- RSROAD SCHOLAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- BFBACKPACK FOR KIDSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…
The lake city humane society desires to become a leading animal advocate in florida and create a community in which all animals are free from abuse, hunger, fear, and loneliness, and to eliminate the need to euthanize dogs and cats as a…
The champaign county humane association owns and operates the paws animal shelter. the mission is to provide food and shelter to abandoned and strayed animals.
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To provide veterinary care, vaccines, medicine, food and a nurturing environment to restore animals from abused and neglected situations to a healthy life.
To engage a special bond between people and animals by means of adoption services, medical care, education and training for the prevention of cruelty and abandonment and to provide a safe place where animals will be cared for until they…
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte County Homeless Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Bear Sanctuary 2280 State Road 31 Punta Gorda Fl 33982. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 40 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
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 HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YAH-YAH GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRED LANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PUNTA GORDA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BEAR SANCTUARY 2280 STATE ROAD 31 PUNTA GORDA FL 33982 ↗
- Who funds Military Heritage Museum Inc ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charlotte Community Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hoffer Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Military Heritage Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Crossroads Hope Academy Inc — 1% 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.