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The Hohbach Family 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.

$810k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$21MEnvironment$446kCivil Rights$249kAnimals$73kHuman Services$65kCrime & Legal$65kHealth$61kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$181M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEMPERVIRENS FUND$275,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$50,000
NOYO CENTER FOR MARINE SCIENCE$50,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC$50,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$25,000
GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY OF ANIMALS$25,000
GEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL$25,000
VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT$20,000
ALICE PAUL INSTITUTE INC$20,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC$20,000
SPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION$15,000
KIDS AND ART FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$15,000
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $50k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $50k → 14%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $5k → 7%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
SC
DC
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$904k · 27 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
22

Total granted

$904k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsHealthInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • SF
    SEMPERVIRENS FUND
    3× · 2021–2024 · $285k · revenue +7%
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +58%
  • VD
    VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +105% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • UR
    US RESILIENCY COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -88%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +26%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
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
11
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
12
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterElementary Literacy TutoringLocal History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%97%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,906

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
33/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $21,339,474 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY+7 more — $57,500 · EducationSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $285,000 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $25,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $25,000 · Environment+9 more — $42,500 · EnvironmentGEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL — $52,500 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $24,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherPATHWAYS FOUNDATION — $16,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $15,000 · OtherSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $17,500 · OtherLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $15,000 · OtherKids & Art Foundation — $15,000 · OtherKQED INC — $15,000 · OtherThe Primavera Foundation Inc — $30,000 · OtherGIVE WELL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Other+36 more — $186,500 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $57,500 · AnimalsNoyo Center For Marine Science — $50,000 · AnimalsROCKETDOGRESCUE — $5,000 · Animals+2 more — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $77,500 · Civil RightsAlice Paul Institute Inc — $20,000 · Civil RightsCalMatters — $7,500 · Civil RightsVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT — $57,500 · Public Benefit
Education$21,396,974Environment$377,500Other$441,500Human Services$155,000Animals$117,500Civil Rights$105,000Public Benefit$57,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $21,339,474 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $285,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $77,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT — $57,500 over 4y, 33% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $57,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL — $52,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNoyo Center For Marine Science — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlice Paul Institute Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $17,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE KEYS SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids & Art Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKQED INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of SCRAP Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Girls Chorus Inc — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUS RESILIENCY COUNCIL — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalMatters — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThreshold Choir — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROLITERACY WORLDWIDE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON BOOK PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainian Action — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKETDOGRESCUE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …McNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…Gordon E and Betty I …Bothin FoundationTides FoundationFarallon FoundationMary a Crocker TrustAtkinson FoundationMarin Community Found…
The San Francisco FoundationCA25.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Tides Foundation · Farallon Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Atkinson Foundation · Marin Community 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 Hohbach Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Alice Paul Institute Inc — 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

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How do I get to The Hohbach Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hohbach Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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