· Private foundation
The Ralph S Hoffman 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.
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 $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THREAD | $45,000 |
| RAVINIA REACH TEACH PLAY | $25,000 |
| CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS (C-CAP) | $21,400 |
| YELLOWHAMMER FUND | $16,000 |
| BROWNPRENEURS | $15,000 |
| INSIDE CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHASHAMA INC | $4,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $1,834 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LIFE NEEDS COOP INC | $203 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- TITHREAD INC7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +112%
- YGYouth Guidance3× · 2020–2023 · $88k · revenue +54%
- DVDEFY VENTURES INC2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- YNYOUNG NEW YORKERS INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -75%
- COCenter of NU Leadershipone grant, 2020 · $20k
THE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +103%
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…
Released offers navigation and empowerment to the incarcerated, the newly released members of our society, and to their families.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
New York State Youth Leadership Council, Inc. (NYSYLC or the Organization) works to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. NYSYLCs goal is to give…
Work to end mass incarceration led by the voices of the families and individuals of those directly impacted. we envision a community that centers safety, prevention of harm, and alternatives to incarceration.
Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
An employer-led initiative aimed at transforming the hiring process. we use a skills-based approach to identify, train and hire talent. the traditional credentials-based focus must evolve to give all qualified job seekers a chance to prove…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young New Yorkers Inc and the most unlike its peers is We Are Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Studios ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds INSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds CHASHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Needs Coop 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Ralph S 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.
- Life Needs Coop Inc — 38% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% 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.
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