· Private foundation
William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERSIGHT | $30,000 |
| VISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NJ | $30,000 |
| SAFE TODDLES | $30,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $30,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CTR JER | $25,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $20,000 |
| SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| VISIONS SERVICES BLIND AND VISUAL IMPAIR | $16,000 |
| VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT | $15,000 |
| HELEN KELLER SERVICES | $15,000 |
| KINGS BAY Y | $15,000 |
| RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $15,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +83%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +76%
- HKHelen Keller Services6× · 2019–2025 · $135k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INCone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +10%
- VSVISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2018 · $30k
- SJST JOSEPH SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 53 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Jonas Philanthropies Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE TODDLES ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds Central Jersey Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED CHILDREN'S CHARITIES CORP AKA HELEN DILLER VAC HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Rudolph Williams Charitable Trust · Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Allene Reuss Memorial Trust · Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 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.
- Alliance Community Health Center Inc — 29% of income from government
- Central Jersey Medical Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% 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.