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The Jane and Michael Hoffman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Education$763kRecreation & Sports$454kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$6kInternational$5kFood & Nutrition$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$24,886
UJA - FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$3,600
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE$2,500
MOSAIC INSTITUTE$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $500 → 16%GENE SPOTLIGHT: $10k → 10%HOUSING WORKS INC: $3k → 20%MOSAIC INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%REDING PARTNERS: $3k → 17%HOUSING WORKS INC: $3k → 20%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%BROADWAY FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $1k → 17%HOUSING WORKS INC: $1k → 20%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $99k → 14%NEW ALTERNATIVES: $500 → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $98k → 14%CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%UJA - FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%METROSQUASH: $10k → 14%NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $500 → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $8k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $7k → 17%RAZOM FOR UKRAINE: $5k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $2k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $1k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $1k → 17%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $1k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $596k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $9k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $3k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $4k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 17%READING PARTNERS: $1k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES: $1k → 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

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MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
LA

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+1%

Still filing today

92%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $721k · revenue +33%
  • Northwestern University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $454k · revenue +41%
  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GS
    GENE SPOTLIGHT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • MN
    METROSQUASH NFP
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -30%
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -65%

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
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
2
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broadway for Racial Justice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr15%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr15%94%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/20
the rest of the field
13%
7,796/58,126

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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $721,093 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY+4 more — $25,400 · EducationNorthwestern University — $453,871 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGENE SPOTLIGHT — $10,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $5,750 · OtherASSOCIATION OPHTALMOLOGIE — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $4,000 · OtherCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $4,600 · OtherNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $1,500 · OtherCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,250 · Other+5 more — $3,350 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $14,375 · Philanthropy+2 more — $700 · PhilanthropyOCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION — $12,529 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthHOUSING WORKS INC — $6,000 · Community ImprovementRAZOM INC — $5,000 · International
Education$746,493Recreation & Sports$463,871Other$36,950Philanthropy$15,075Health$12,779Community Improvement$6,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $721,093 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University — $453,871 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $23,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $14,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION — $12,529 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD AHEAD INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $250 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jane and Michael Hoffman 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 27 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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