· Private foundation
The Robert and Bernadette Hohman 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Robert and Bernadette Hohman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Robert and Bernadette Hohman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $114k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY STAR OF THE SEA HIGH SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTER'S OF PEACE | $3,497 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,497 |
| JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL | $3,497 |
| ST MICHAELS ABBEY | $3,497 |
| CONCEPTION SEMINARY COLLEGE | $3,497 |
| MARIANIST MISSION | $3,497 |
| PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART | $3,497 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMARY OF THE SEA HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2018–2024 · $181k
- POPRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART3× · 2017–2024 · $17k
- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE US2× · 2017–2024 · $14k
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF THE ELMSone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SBST BERNARD-ST MARY PARISHone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SPST PAUL PARISHone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Bernadette Hohman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Bernadette Hohman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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