Delaware · Private foundation
Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $2.0M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.9M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.6M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sheffield Land Trust Inc | $1,805,000 | 3 | 72% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $825,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc | $750,000 | 5 | 16% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $675,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Princeton in Asia Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Neighbors Link Corp | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Greenagers Inc | $320,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Streetsquash Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc | $295,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc
- How much does Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc give?
- Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $2,210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Sheffield Land Trust Inc ($1.8M), National Redistricting Foundation ($825k), Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc ($750k).
- Does Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation, Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust.
- Where is Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc based?
- Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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