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Thomas & Ellen Hogue Family 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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.4MReligion$221kHealth$165kYouth Development$164kEducation$116kArts & Culture$97kRecreation & Sports$62kHousing & Shelter$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $159k
$17,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$90,000
SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC$68,550
HOMETOWN HEROES INC$30,000
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP$20,000
HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK$20,000
EN GEDI PROJECT$20,000
KARA$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA INC$17,000
WONDERFULLY MADE$15,000
JONI AND FRIENDS$15,000
THE UNITY CARE GROUP$15,000
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS$10,000
SARATOGA FEDERATED CHURCH$10,000
WASHAKIE COUNTY ACTIVITY PASS PROGRAM$5,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $15k → 14%WONDERFULLY MADE: $15k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $30k → 6%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%WONDERFULLY MADE: $15k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $30k → 6%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%WONDERFULLY MADE: $15k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $20k → 6%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $18k → 8%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%WONDERFULLY MADE: $12k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $15k → 6%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%WONDERFULLY MADE: $10k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $15k → 6%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $15k → 8%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $11k → 6%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $6k → 14%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $10k → 6%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $15k → 8%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $10k → 6%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $10k → 6%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $15k → 8%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $10k → 6%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $3k → 8%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $91k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $80k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $69k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $68k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $64k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $23k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $18k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $16k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC: $16k → 11%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $12k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $10k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $20k → 8%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $15k → 8%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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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.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
22

Total granted

$2.2M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • SA
    SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $444k · revenue +14%
  • HH
    HOMETOWN HEROES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $161k · revenue +114%
  • HO
    HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $135k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • BO
    BLESSINGS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • TL
    THE LEGACY ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
2
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
3
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
5
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
6
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
7
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & Families

To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…

Human Services
8
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
9
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
10
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Symphony of the Southwest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,930

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

43 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. 43 of the 53 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $443,500 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCHOMETOWN HEROES INC — $161,000 · Human ServicesHOMETOWN HEROES INCHELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK — $135,000 · Human ServicesHELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISKWonderfully Made — $67,000 · Human ServicesWonderfully MadeTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $65,350 · Human ServicesTHE UNITY CARE GROUPChildren of the Night — $65,000 · Human ServicesChildren of the NightNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $62,826 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE+2 more — $7,100 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION ARMY — $180,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSALVATION ARMY GOLDEN GATE DIVISION — $140,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY GOLDEN GATE DIVISIONJONI AND FRIENDS — $117,700 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDSKARA — $117,500 · OtherKARAPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $100,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSSARATOGA FEDERATED CHURCH — $75,000 · OtherSARATOGA FEDERATED CHURCHEN GEDI PROJECT — $56,000 · OtherEN GEDI PROJECTMESA UNITED WAY INC — $45,000 · Other+23 more — $117,100 · Other+23 moreJW HOUSE — $148,400 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Health+3 more — $1,600 · HealthSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $95,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $1,400 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc — $47,250 · Recreation & SportsWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES — $8,700 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,006,776Other$948,300Health$165,000Arts & Culture$96,900Recreation & Sports$47,250Housing & Shelter$20,500Crime & Legal$8,700

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 budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $443,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC — $161,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetJW HOUSE — $148,400 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetHELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK — $135,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS — $117,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKARA — $117,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $95,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWonderfully Made — $67,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $65,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChildren of the Night — $65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $62,826 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc — $47,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES — $8,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSRC LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION — $7,800 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION — $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY SPOKANE ANGELS — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Academy of the Performing Arts Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANDLER SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLELAND HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE SOUTHWEST — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE AND SECOND CHANCES — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $100 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Sobrato Family Fo…Farrington Historical…Heffernan Group Found…Arizona Community Fou…The Intuit FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Analog Devices Founda…AbbVie FoundationStar One Credit Union
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Star One Credit Union

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 Thomas & Ellen Hogue Family Foundation Inc 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%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Thomas & Ellen Hogue Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas & Ellen Hogue Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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