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Hughes Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2021.

Health$885kHuman Services$849kArts & Culture$825kEmployment$559kFood & Nutrition$473kEducation$390kCommunity Improvement$357kPhilanthropy$329kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$35,000
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $897k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTIONS INC: $30k → 9%ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $250k → 12%HUDSON GUILD: $10k → 17%CLIMB WYOMING: $140k → 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $110k → 10%DOWNRANGE WARRIORS: $12k → 11%ONE 22 INC: $115k → 5%CLIMB WYOMING: $100k → 10%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $10k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 22 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
82

Total granted

$3.2M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+23%

Still filing today

91%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • SL
    SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $498k · revenue +154%
  • CD
    CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING
    3× · 2018–2020 · $350k · revenue +32%
  • SJ
    St John's Health Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $303k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +519%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SLO COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • FC
    FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $143k · revenue +20%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county

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2
Teton Valley Mental Health Coalition Inc

Our mission is to promote mental wellness in teton valley by providing outreach, education, and connection to services.

Health
3
Central Wyoming Hospice & Transitions

To companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.

—
4
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

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5
Wyoming Family Home Ownership Program

Provide low income, working families with children, the tools and resources needed to achieve and maintain first time home ownership.

Education
6
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
7
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation

Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…

Health
8
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

—
9
The Wyldlife Fund

To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.

Animals
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Teton Regional Economic Coalition Inc

Our mission is to encourage high-value, low-impact job creation; provide value and service to the business community and enhance the overall prosperity of teton valley.

Community Improvement
12
Wyofile

Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Array Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr15%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%46%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr15%6%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
11%
536/4,796

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 106 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/72
Grantees still filing
50/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area — $300,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton AreaCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SLO COUNTY — $150,000 · OtherFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC — $143,000 · OtherTRANSITIONS- MENTAL HEALTH — $125,000 · OtherLANDER PET CONNECTION INC — $217,000 · OtherLANDER PET CONNECTION INCWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND — $204,411 · OtherWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUNDFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS — $95,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC — $149,185 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation — $100,000 · OtherTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation — $100,000 · Other+54 more — $1,236,917 · Other+54 moreCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $350,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB …COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNSE…One22 Inc — $115,113 · Human ServicesOne22 IncCathedral Home for Children — $100,000 · Human ServicesCathedral Home f…+7 more — $92,000 · Human Services+7 moreSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE — $498,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISP…Art Partners — $114,000 · Arts & CultureArt PartnersSAN LUIS OBISPO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $81,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISP…Buffalo Bill Memorial Association — $65,000 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Bill M…DANCERS WORKSHOP — $27,000 · Arts & CultureSt John's Health Foundation — $303,000 · HealthSt John's Hea…TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $125,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH A…SLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 · HealthSLO NOOR FOUN…ST JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $80,000 · HealthST JOSEPH'S C…YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — $50,000 · HealthYOUTH DEVELOP…Childrens Advocacy Project — $40,000 · HealthBRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY — $36,250 · Health+2 more — $18,500 · HealthHole Food Rescue — $170,325 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST — $125,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $75,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $20,000 · Food & NutritionGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $75,000 · PhilanthropyWOMENTUM INC — $39,750 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $37,592 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTETON LITERACY CENTER — $110,000 · EducationBELLEVUE SANTA FE CHARTER SCHOOL — $92,500 · EducationCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCOASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $8,000 · Education
Other$2,820,513Human Services$907,113Arts & Culture$785,000Health$752,750Food & Nutrition$390,325Philanthropy$262,342Education$255,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE — $498,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $350,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $303,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area — $300,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLANDER PET CONNECTION INC — $217,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND — $204,411 over 3y, 30% of budgetHole Food Rescue — $170,325 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC — $149,185 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $125,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST — $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOne22 Inc — $115,113 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetArt Partners — $114,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER — $110,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCathedral Home for Children — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS — $95,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBELLEVUE SANTA FE CHARTER SCHOOL — $92,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $81,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetST JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION — $65,192 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA MID-STATE FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $62,186 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCULTIVATE ABILITY — $60,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Project — $40,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $37,592 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBecoming Jackson Whole — $36,039 over 1y, 14% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF JACKSON HOLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOURTNEY'S HOUSE — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $27,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP — $27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDOWNRANGE WARRIORS — $12,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTHE ARRAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Hughes Charitable Fou…Community Foundation …First Interstate Banc…Wyoming Community Fou…The Community Foundat…The Andrew Allen Char…Wyoming Assn of Non P…Karl M Johnson Founda…The Brooks FoundationPerkins Charitable Fo…The Ladd Family Found…The McKnight Foundati…
Hughes Charitable FoundationWY46.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hughes Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Karl M Johnson Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · The Ladd Family Foundation · The McKnight 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 Hughes Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hughes Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hughes Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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