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The Hohenberg Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hohenberg Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$412kEducation$182kHuman Services$165kEnvironment$99kHousing & Shelter$12kInternational$12kYouth Development$8kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$6,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Ornamental Metal Museum$10,000
New Ballet Ensemble$10,000
Protect Our Aquifer$10,000
Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA)$10,000
Teach for America Memphis$10,000
Vox Press$7,500
Christian Brothers University$6,500
Friends of Camp Celo$6,500
Mid-South Public Comm Foundation (WKNO-FM)$6,000
New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture$5,000
Carpenter Art Garden$5,000
Overton Park Conservancy$5,000
Hattiloo Theater$5,000
WEVL FM 899 Radio$4,000
Hospitality Hub$4,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Friends of Camp Celo: $13k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $7k → 12%Friends of Camp Celo: $3k → 12%Catholic Charities of West Tennessee: $6k → 17%Catholic Charities of West Tennessee: $6k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA): $10k → 17%Hospitality Hub: $4k → 17%Hospitality Hub: $3k → 17%Hospitality Hub: $2k → 17%Hospitality Hub: $2k → 17%Hospitality Hub: $1k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$881k · 24 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$881k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

79%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • MI
    Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +33%
  • CB
    CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +81%
  • GI
    Girls Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • L
    LITE
    one grant, 2017 · $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
The Urbanart Commission

The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.

Arts & Culture
2
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Nashville Opera Association

To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.

Arts & Culture
4
One Family Memphis
Human Services
5
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
6
The Consortium Mmt

To develop a viable music industry in memphis for the future by providing a structured learning environment to enrich and equip our talents with proven tools to build the next generation of successful music professionals. the consortium…

Arts & Culture
7
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc

To Create Joy through the Power of Art.

Arts & Culture
8
Crosstown Arts

Crosstown arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in memphis. managing a variety of exhibition, performance, and production spaces, crosstown arts supports artists, musicians, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Memphis Black Arts Alliance Inc

MBAA inspire, educate and engage artists and audiences towards the creatin of just and equitable communities through forward-thinking experiences. MBAA acknowledge that African American art and culture are living, breathing, and…

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10
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
11
Riverartsfest Inc

Create access to a broad array of art experiences, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms, and encourage the expanding depth of cultural life in the city of memphis.

Arts & Culture
12
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carpenter Art Garden; the most unlike its peers is Protect Our Aquifer. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 33 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INCINDIE MEMPHIS: $68,000 · Arts & CultureINDIE MEMPHISHATTILOO THEATRE: $36,000 · Arts & CultureHATTILOO THEATRETANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTE…SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSOULSVILLE FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC+3 more: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $90,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Fa…FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC: $61,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CAMP CELO …THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPITALITY HUB O…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF…Teach for America Inc: $85,000 · EducationTeach for America In…CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $63,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN BROTHERS U…CARPENTER ART GARDEN: $20,000 · EducationCARPENTER ART GARDENNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $51,000 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHO…VOX PRESS INC: $27,500 · OtherVOX PRESS INCWEVL FM 899 Radio: $22,500 · OtherWEVL FM 899 RadioMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART: $14,000 · OtherMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF A…Mid-South Public Comm Foundation (WKNO-FM): $12,000 · OtherMid-South Public Com…Individual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Girls Inc: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+6 more: $20,500 · Other+6 moreOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY: $59,000 · Recreation & SportsProtect Our Aquifer: $40,000 · EnvironmentHumanity Now: $12,000 · International
Arts & Culture$296,000Human Services$174,500Education$168,000Other$169,000Recreation & Sports$59,000Environment$40,000International$12,000

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 budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS: $68,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $63,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC: $61,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY: $59,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $51,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetProtect Our Aquifer: $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHATTILOO THEATRE: $36,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARPENTER ART GARDEN: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHumanity Now: $12,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEACEJAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Communication Volunteers Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH COMPASSION MINISTRY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC ↗
  • Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Protect Our Aquifer ↗
  • Who funds HATTILOO THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Humanity Now ↗
  • Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Communication Volunteers Inc ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH COMPASSION MINISTRY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…Thomas W Briggs Found…The Assisi Foundation…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Lichterman Loewenberg…Jewish Foundation of …The Turley FoundationThe Day FoundationBaptist Memorial Heal…United Way of the Mid…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN35.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Turley Foundation · The Day Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · United Way of the Mid South

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 Hohenberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hohenberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 33 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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