Timothy J. Hoeppner
Managing Director, Real Estate

Timothy J. Hoeppner is the Managing Director, Real Estate, at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He joined the Foundation in 1993 as an Investment Associate. Tim was responsible for managing the disposition of $1 billion of direct-owned real estate and the establishment of a $700 million go-forward real estate portfolio, a $350 million stand-alone private energy/commodities portfolio and a $100 million timber portfolio, all commingled fund based. The real estate portfolio is geographically diversified with a current allocation of approximately 54% in the US; 20% in international developed markets, including Western Europe and Japan; and 26% in international emerging markets, including Brazil, India, China and South Africa.

Tim attended the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1982 with a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting. He began his career at Price Waterhouse where his audit clients included energy, financial/banking and real estate firms. He received his Certified Public Accounting (CPA) license in 1983. In 1985, Tim began working in Dallas, Texas, for the Trammell Crow Company, a leading real estate developer, where, over the course of eight years, he held the positions of Regional Controller, Regional Vice President of Finance, and Senior Asset Manager. In his role as Senior Asset Manager, his portfolio included 150 assets valued at $1 billion. Tim has been active in real estate organizations and at conferences and has served on the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Board of Directors, Plan Sponsors Council, and Editorial Board.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media. With assets over $5 billion and grants and program-related investments totaling approximately $235 million annually, MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest private philanthropic foundations. The Foundation believes its grant making is most effective when focused on relatively few areas of work, combined with sufficient resources over a long enough period of time to make a measurable difference.