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Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc at a glance

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Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$3.5MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$915kCivil Rights$690kCrime & Legal$565kInternational$300kHuman Services$245kRecreation & Sports$240kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC$750,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$150,000
NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION$150,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$125,000
BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES$100,000
NEIGHBORS LINK CORP$100,000
PRINCETON IN ASIA INC$100,000
BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURE VENTURES$75,000
PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC$75,000
STREETSQUASH INC$60,000
VOTE ORG$50,000
CONSTRUCT INC$50,000
GREENAGERS INC$50,000
BERKSHIRE BIRD OBSERVATORY$50,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $20k → 14%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $75k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $50k → 9%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $20k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $20k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $20k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $50k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
KY
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 34 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
14

Total granted

$8.8M
$975k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+62%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BN
    BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $750k · revenue +228%
  • PI
    PRINCETON IN ASIA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • BA
    BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +654% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • EL
    EGREMONT LAND TRUST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue -37%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +62%
  • UO
    University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +295% · 64% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
4
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
5
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
6
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

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…

Environment
7
Franklin Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
12
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC: $1,805,000 · EnvironmentTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INCBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $750,000 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL I…EGREMONT LAND TRUST INC: $240,000 · EnvironmentEGREMONT LAND TRUST INCSAVE THE SOUND: $200,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDConnecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: $180,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $150,000 · Environment+5 more: $235,000 · Environment+5 moreBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $375,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE AGRI…GREENAGERS INC: $320,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INCConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $240,000 · Food & NutritionConnecticut Fa…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $200,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAG…NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMO…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES BOU…PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSFIELD COM…NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $825,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL R…ROCK THE VOTE: $100,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE V…VOTEORG: $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $700,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPascal Rioult Dance Theatre Inc: $105,000 · OtherPRINCETON IN ASIA INC: $400,000 · OtherPRINCETON IN ASIA INCTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $255,000 · OtherTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH F…STREETSQUASH INC: $300,000 · OtherSTREETSQUASH INCUniversity of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation Inc: $125,000 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute…CONSTRUCT INC: $140,000 · Other1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Other+10 more: $416,000 · Other+10 moreMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $295,000 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE P…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMetropoli…SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SY…BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE…+3 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $675,000 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $325,000 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $20,000 · Human Services
Environment$3,560,000Food & Nutrition$1,385,000Civil Rights$990,000Other$2,696,000Arts & Culture$920,000Crime & Legal$675,000Human Services$465,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC: $1,805,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $825,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $750,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $675,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPRINCETON IN ASIA INC: $400,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $375,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $325,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $320,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $300,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $295,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $255,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $240,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $140,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 64% of budget1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetPascal Rioult Dance Theatre Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetVOTEORG: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSONIA LIMITED: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Dr Robert C & Tina So…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Lee Bank Foundation I…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Buchwald Family F…Donald C McGraw Found…The Feigenbaum Founda…Jewish Communal FundThe Velmans Foundatio…Shoval FoundationJosephine and Louise …
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA41.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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