· Private foundation
Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC | $175,000 |
| CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON IN ASIA INC | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURE VENTURES | $75,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK CORP | $75,000 |
| STREETSQUASH INC | $60,000 |
| GREENAGERS INC | $50,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| CONSTRUCT INC | $40,000 |
| 1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BNBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +228%
- BABERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +654% · 27% of their budget
- PIPRINCETON IN ASIA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- ELEGREMONT LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue -37%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +44%- UOUniversity of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +295% · 64% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
Our vision is to be a cornerstone of excellence in the stewardship of the environment. clearly identified with our specific mission, we strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the county and to conserve its heritage and essential…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON IN ASIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EGREMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds 1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc — 12% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Egremont Land Trust Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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