How much did WILLIAM G AND HELEN C HOFFMAN FDN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of WILLIAM G AND HELEN C HOFFMAN FDN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

impaired

2019

—

2020

impaired

2021

healthimpaired

2022

—

2023

blindnessimpairedguide

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $17k
$10k–50k13 grants · $244k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$35,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC$25,000
VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND$25,000
ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$25,000
FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC$21,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL$20,000
OPTOMETRIC CENTER OF NEW YORK$17,500
RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$15,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH$15,000
EVERSIGHT$15,000
VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT$10,000
THE SEEING EYE INC$10,000
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC$10,000
P G CHAMBERS SCHOOL INC$8,500
ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED$8,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $729k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.8M · 21 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+37%

Still filing today

62%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GE
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +72%
TM
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +21%
HK
HELEN KELLER SERVICES
5× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +6%

Funded once

VS
VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND
one grant, 2018 · $30k
MH
MONTFIORE HOSPITAL
one grant, 2018 · $30k
OS
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +29%

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.

Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology

Health

Central Association for the Blind Inc

To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest levels of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association, including…

Health

Independence for the Blind of

Our mission is to teach independent living skills, computer and adaptive technology, and to provide vocational training, and employment-related services to people who are blind or visually impaired so they can achieve maximum independence.

Employment

In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed. the organization provides opportunities for education, vocational and rehabilitative training, work in the arts,…

Human Services

OneSight

Providing sustainable access to quality vision care & eye wear in underserved communities worldwide.

Human Services

Eversight

Eversight is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donation, transplantation and research. The Eversight network is responsible for recovering, evaluating and…

—

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

The Iris Network

To help people who are visually impaired or blind attain independence and community integration.

—

Alphapointe

Employ people who are blind and provide rehabilitation services to the visually impaired.

Employment

Leader Dogs for the Blind

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.

Human Services

Blind Industries & Services of Maryland

Rehabilitation, training, and employment of blind and low vision individuals. we positively change people's attitudes toward blindness.

Human Services

Research to Prevent Blindness

Provides the organizational & financial resources necessary to support eye research

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation. 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 58 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

10,118/120,734

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

20/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$909,000Human Services$738,500Arts & Culture$200,000Education$142,500Philanthropy$105,000Health$95,000Social Science$15,000Youth Development$5,000

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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Reader's Digest Partners for Sight · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation WILLIAM G AND HELEN C HOFFMAN FDN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAFE TODDLES INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832525171 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SAFE TODDLES INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn?

Find your warmest path to William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM G AND HELEN C HOFFMAN FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn?

More from the funding graph

WILLIAM G AND HELEN C HOFFMAN FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn?

More from the funding graph