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The Shoff Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$621kHuman Services$268kRecreation & Sports$178kHealth$156kArts & Culture$44kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC$29,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION INC$18,000
GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY$15,000
EAGLE RANCH INC$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$14,000
WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$10,000
ALANO BEACH CLUB INC$9,000
A1 GWINNETT VOLLEYBALL CLUB$8,000
DELIVERING HOPE FOUNDATION$5,000
WILTON AMBULANCE CORPS$5,000
HISPANIC ALLIANCE GA$5,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,000
HOSEA FEEDS THE HUNGRY & HOMELESS INC$3,000
LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT INC$3,000
FAITH METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEACE PLACE INC: $3k → 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $3k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $3k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $3k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $2k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $1k → 13%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $3k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $10k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CT
MO
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
$1.4M · 48 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
17

Total granted

$1.4M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+71%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • PA
    Prince Avenue Christian School Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +86%
  • GW
    GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    THE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $146k · revenue +51% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • CU
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BY
    BE YOUR OWN HERO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
2
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
3
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
4
Halcyon House

Halcyon lifts up innovators and creators who seek to make the world a better place, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to bring their ideas to life.

Arts & Culture
5
The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc

To protect lives and restore livelihoods of people affected by conflict: 1) to protect lives from the explosive threats and hazards resulting from conflict, 2) to reduce human suffering from armed violence and 3) to build resilient and…

International
6
Robert a Toigo Foundation

Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.

Education
7
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
8
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
9
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

—
12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Positive Impact International Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $71,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILTON AMBULANCE CORPS: $35,000 · OtherWILTON AMBULANCE CORPSALANO BEACH CLUB INC: $29,500 · OtherALANO BEACH CLUB INCDELIVERING HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherSEGS4VETS: $24,000 · OtherFAITH METHODIST CHURCH: $21,000 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherFAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $19,000 · OtherLake George Land Conservancy Inc: $20,000 · Other+36 more: $168,500 · Other+36 morePrince Avenue Christian School Inc: $160,000 · EducationPrince Avenue Christian Schoo…FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY…WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 · EducationWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN…HISPANIC ALLIANCE GA: $20,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $14,500 · Education+3 more: $16,500 · EducationGEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsGEORGE WALTON ACADEMY …THE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC: $145,700 · Recreation & SportsTHE UYC MARITIME FOUND…EAGLE RANCH INC: $125,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INCP4 FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthP4 FOUNDATION IN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…ATLANTA HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $17,500 · HealthATLANTA HOSPITAL…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $8,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE CARVER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $13,600 · Human ServicesPEACE PLACE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$492,500Education$389,500Recreation & Sports$295,700Health$223,500Human Services$65,600Arts & Culture$30,000Philanthropy$21,000

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 budgetPrince Avenue Christian School Inc: $160,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC: $145,700 over 7y, 57% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetP4 FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE GA: $20,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLake George Land Conservancy Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $17,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $13,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowling Green State University Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPOSITIVE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPEACE PLACE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Prince Avenue Christian School Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WALTON ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UYC MARITIME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds P4 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC ALLIANCE GA ↗
  • Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗

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 for Northeast GeorgiaGA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Human Services Council Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report 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 74 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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