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BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC

BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,904 to it, the largest being Hartford Hospital ($46,904). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$586k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$141k
Net assets
$449k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc does

Program

Net income from golf tournament provides funding for charitable contributions.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($168k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2021 Revenue 505 ($264k) Expenses 29 ($49k) Net assets 2536 ($225k)2022 Revenue 685 ($359k) Expenses 255 ($429k) Net assets 1747 ($155k)2023 Revenue 929 ($486k) Expenses 301 ($506k) Net assets 1521 ($135k)2024 Revenue 843 ($441k) Expenses 193 ($325k) Net assets 2841 ($252k)2025 Revenue 1120 ($586k) Expenses 231 ($389k) Net assets 5072 ($449k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1120)Expenses (231)Net assets (5072)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9k to $225k (+2436%).

$9k
$225k
$155k
$135k
$252k
$449k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Phyllis W Hoffman

Chairman of board/director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

202020212022202320242025
Listed555555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $27k.

From the IRS filings of BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC.

33%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 48% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

MA
IN
CT
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve13.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)62% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC

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In Connecticut

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC?
BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,904 to it, the largest being Hartford Hospital ($46,904). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $140,904 in grants to BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC?
Hartford Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $46,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing