Our Mission
The Hobbs Foundation partners with organizations across Florida to improve outcomes for children and families. Through strategic investments, collaborative partnerships, and community-based solutions, we support programs that promote safety, stability, well-being, and opportunity.
Our Approach
We believe lasting change is achieved through strong partnerships and a shared commitment to addressing the complex challenges facing children and families. The Foundation works closely with nonprofit organizations, community leaders, and service providers to identify emerging needs, strengthen local capacity, and advance solutions that create meaningful and measurable impact.Our grantmaking prioritizes prevention, family stability, educational achievement, and child well-being. By supporting both grassroots organizations and established community partners, we seek to strengthen the systems of care that help children and families thrive.
Our Values
Collaboration
We believe the strongest solutions emerge through partnership, shared learning, and collective action.
Opportunity
Every child deserves access to the resources, relationships, and experiences necessary to reach their full potential.
Prevention
Investing early in children and families creates stronger outcomes and reduces the need for crisis intervention.
Innovation
We support creative, evidence-informed approaches that address evolving community needs and improve long-term outcomes.
Stewardship
We are committed to thoughtful philanthropy, responsible resource management, and investments that generate lasting community impact.
The Hobbs Foundation has since established partnerships with charitable organizations across the state who have demonstrated evidence-based outcomes in improving the well-being of children. Our programs help to provide children and youth with the tools they need to reach their full potential as productive and responsible members of their community.
Our Grantmaking Priorities
The Hobbs Foundation invests in programs and partnerships that strengthen outcomes for children and families throughout Florida. We support organizations that address immediate needs while building pathways to long-term stability, well-being, and opportunity.
The Hobbs Foundation supports programs that strengthen child welfare systems and improve outcomes for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, family instability, or involvement with the foster care system. We invest in efforts that promote family preservation, reunification, kinship care, adoption, and permanency, ensuring that children have access to safe, stable, and nurturing environments where they can thrive.
We support initiatives that address the underlying challenges that place children and families at risk, including economic hardship, housing instability, caregiver stress, and barriers to accessing services. Through prevention-focused strategies, early intervention, and family support programs, we seek to strengthen family resilience and reduce the need for crisis intervention.
The Foundation supports programs that help children and families experiencing housing insecurity achieve stability and self-sufficiency. By investing in shelter, housing, case management, and supportive services, we help ensure that children have the stability necessary to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally.
We invest in programs that expand educational opportunity and support academic achievement from early childhood through adolescence. This includes literacy initiatives, academic enrichment, college readiness, and other evidence-based approaches that help children develop the skills and confidence needed for lifelong success.
The Foundation supports programs that foster confidence, resilience, leadership, and positive youth development. Through mentoring relationships, enrichment opportunities, workforce exposure, arts, athletics, and other experiential learning programs, we help young people build the skills, relationships, and aspirations needed to reach their full potential.
The Hobbs Foundation supports programs that promote emotional well-being and strengthen protective factors for children and families. We invest in trauma-informed services, counseling, behavioral health supports, and innovative approaches that help children heal, build resilience, and thrive in their homes, schools, and communities.
We support initiatives that prepare young people for successful transitions into adulthood through career exploration, workforce development, postsecondary planning, life skills training, and supportive relationships. Particular emphasis is placed on youth who face barriers to opportunity, including those involved in the child welfare system.