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PHILIP HOFER CHARITABLE TRUST

EIN 04-6469904 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2025
$214,111
Expenses 2025
$152,561

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1200
Street
CHOATE HALL STEWART PO BOX 96101

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The Trust was created and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of and in connection with the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, a Massachusetts charitable and educational corporation.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Grants to the Houghton Library at Harvard University

  • Funds generated through the Trust's investments are used to provide charitable grants to the Houghton Library at Harvard University for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts.

    Expenses $133,649 · Grants $103,829

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Charles A Cheever

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristin T Abati

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexander Thorndike

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $214,111
    Expenses
    $152,561
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $103,829
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $347,078
    Expenses
    $133,543
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $87,959
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $219,096
    Expenses
    $109,205
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $69,298
  • 2022
    Revenue
    -$138,735
    Expenses
    $93,721
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $52,455

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $460,682
    Expenses
    $184,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,712,537

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $198,387
    Expenses
    $219,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,341,360

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SONFI.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.