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Hughes Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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%
+20%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 106 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 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 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 budgetCOURTNEY'S HOUSE: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF JACKSON HOLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $27,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP: $27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOWNRANGE WARRIORS: $12,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

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

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 Hughes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hughes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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