Wyoming · Private foundation
Hughes Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 54
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Hughes Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 34 | $3.8M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $2.8M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $4.2M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $7.4M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $9.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust | $2,321,600 | 3 | 44% |
| Wyoming Rescue Mission | $850,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area | $845,111 | 3 | 13% |
| Pilot Hill Inc | $800,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Teton Youth and Family Services | $716,668 | 2 | 15% |
| Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation | $612,500 | 3 | 25% |
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $575,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Slow Food in the Tetons Inc | $570,431 | 4 | 16% |
| Cathedral Home for Children | $530,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Unaccompanied Students Initiative | $500,000 | 1 | 32% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hughes Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 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.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Wyoming Humanities Council · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hughes Charitable Foundation
- How much does Hughes Charitable Foundation give?
- Hughes Charitable Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $3,829,202 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Hughes Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Hughes Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust ($2.3M), Wyoming Rescue Mission ($850k), Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area ($845k).
- Does Hughes Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hughes Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hughes Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hughes Charitable Foundation based?
- Hughes Charitable Foundation is based in WY.
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