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William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.6MHuman Services$266kEducation$263kArts & Culture$225kPhilanthropy$105kAnimals$65kCommunity Improvement$30kEmployment$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
$17,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERSIGHT$30,000
VISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NJ$30,000
SAFE TODDLES$30,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC$30,000
ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$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
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC$15,000
VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT$15,000
HELEN KELLER SERVICES$15,000
KINGS BAY Y$15,000
RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SAFE TODDLES: $30k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $40k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $15k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 16%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $30k → 20%THE SEEING EYE INC: $20k → 4%ASSOC FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND: $15k → 11%SAFE TODDLES INC: $26k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $40k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $15k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 16%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $30k → 20%THE SEEING EYE INC: $20k → 4%ASSOCIATION FOR THE MUTIPLE IMPAIRED BLI: $15k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $35k → 9%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $13k → 16%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $25k → 20%THE SEEING EYE INC: $20k → 4%ASSOC FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND: $12k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $33k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $15k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $13k → 16%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $20k → 20%THE SEEING EYE INC: $20k → 4%ASSOC FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND: $10k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $32k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 16%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $15k → 20%THE SEEING EYE INC: $20k → 4%ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED: $8k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $30k → 9%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 13%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $15k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $25k → 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

IL
NY
NV
PA
NJ
VA
MD
GA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 23 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
19

Total granted

$2.1M
$403k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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 ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +83%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +76%
  • HK
    Helen Keller Services
    6× · 2019–2025 · $135k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • VS
    VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
3
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
4
Central Association for the Blind Inc

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…

Health
5
Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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…

Human Services
6
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

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…

Health
7
International Eye Foundation

International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.

International
8
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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9
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

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…

Health
10
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

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…

Health
11
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
12
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND: $155,000 · OtherVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND ANDJOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $110,000 · OtherJOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDEVERSIGHT: $100,000 · OtherEVERSIGHTVISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC: $100,000 · OtherVISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $95,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYVISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUA: $60,000 · OtherVISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUACONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $45,000 · OtherGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $40,000 · Other+15 more: $314,000 · Other+15 moreGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCHelen Keller Services: $135,000 · Human ServicesHelen Keller ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind …VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $65,000 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENTASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $59,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPA…SAFE TODDLES: $55,500 · Human ServicesSAFE TODDLESMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $185,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIT…NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL D…THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $46,000 · HealthRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $45,000 · HealthCentral Jersey Medical Center Inc: $30,000 · HealthELIZABETHTOWN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · HealthTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 · EducationJonas Philanthropies Inc: $105,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $15,000 · Social ScienceALLIANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,109,000Human Services$745,000Arts & Culture$225,000Health$186,000Education$160,000Philanthropy$105,000Social Science$15,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $235,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJonas Philanthropies Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetVISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NEW JERSEY INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $59,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE TODDLES: $55,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Jersey Medical Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHALLENGED CHILDREN'S CHARITIES CORP AKA HELEN DILLER VAC HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 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 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 CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Rudolph Williams Char…Lavelle Fund for the …Sarah Decoizart Perpe…George a Ohl Jr TrustAllene Reuss Memorial…Reader's Digest Partn…Community Foundation …Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Verizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 46 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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