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Hughes Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MHousing & Shelter$8.9MHuman Services$2.3MHealth$2.3MArts & Culture$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.8MRecreation & Sports$956kYouth Development$830kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $925k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area$661,444
Wyoming Rescue Mission$500,000
Mental Health & Recovery Services of Jackson Hole$300,000
St John's Health Foundation$250,000
The Episcopal Church of Jackson Hole$166,667
GAP$165,000
Feeding Hawaii Together$125,000
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole$100,000
Wyoming Association of Nonprofit Organizations$80,000
Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation$70,000
Anam Cara Giving$60,000
Sheridan College Foundation$55,700
St Lukes Episcopal Church$53,000
Off Square Theatre$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Jack's Helping Hand: $250k → 12%Cathedral Home for Children: $480k → 17%Feeding Hawaii Together: $125k → 9%Blessings in a Backpack: $31k → 9%Youth Emergency Services: $333k → 9%Cathedral Home for Children: $50k → 17%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $46k → 10%Casper Family Connections: $50k → 11%K9's 4 Mobility: $1k → 10%Joshua's Storehouse: $40k → 11%K9's 4 Mobility: $1k → 10%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $1k → 10%Needs Inc: $1k → 10%Climb: $100k → 10%One 22: $50k → 5%One 22: $2k → 5%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

ID
NY
WY
CA
UT
VA
TN
HI
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 10% of Hughes Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hughes Charitable Foundationlessmore 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 40 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
91

Total granted

$15M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $911k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area
    3× · 2023–2025 · $845k · revenue +140%
  • TY
    TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $717k · revenue +34%
  • SF
    SLOW FOOD IN THE TETONS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $570k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • PH
    PILOT HILL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $800k · revenue +82%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
    one grant, 2023 · $575k · revenue +0%
  • US
    UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -16% · 32% 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
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
2
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
3
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
4
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
5
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
6
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
7
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Recover Wyoming

The mission of recover wyoming is to advocate for persons in recovery and mobilize resources to aid them, their families and allies, to increase the occurence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction. through recovery promotion and…

Health
9
Walk Family Jackson Hole Housing Fund
Arts & Culture
10
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
11
Wyoming Donor Alliance

The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.

Public Benefit
12
Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership

The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; the most unlike its peers is The John P Ellbogen Foundation. 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

106 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. 106 of the 153 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
63/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,018,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST: $2,321,600 · OtherJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUSTHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area: $845,111 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton AreaTeton County Search & Rescue: $625,000 · OtherWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $612,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $575,000 · OtherSLOW FOOD IN THE TETONS INC: $570,431 · Other+94 more: $5,484,181 · Other+94 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $6,100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JA…WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $397,185 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…+6 more: $387,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreCathedral Home for Children: $530,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $333,333 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $250,000 · Human ServicesJACKS HELPING HAND INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $125,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA: $110,000 · Human Services+9 more: $278,745 · Human ServicesTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $716,668 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $500,000 · HealthROBBIES HOUSE: $250,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CHANGE FOUNDATION: $138,000 · Health+8 more: $238,500 · HealthWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Center for the Arts: $333,333 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTUMBLEWEED CREATIVE ARTS: $160,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $166,000 · Arts & CultureWyoming Rescue Mission: $850,000 · Housing & ShelterUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE: $500,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterPILOT HILL INC: $800,000 · EnvironmentWyoming Pathways: $150,000 · Environment
Other$15,052,173Philanthropy$6,884,185Human Services$1,877,078Health$1,843,168Arts & Culture$1,714,333Housing & Shelter$1,500,000Environment$950,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $6,100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST: $2,321,600 over 3y, 44% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $850,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area: $845,111 over 3y, 13% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $716,668 over 2y, 15% of budgetWYOMING GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $612,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $575,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSLOW FOOD IN THE TETONS INC: $570,431 over 4y, 16% of budgetCathedral Home for Children: $530,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE: $500,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $397,185 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $333,333 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $333,333 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WYOMING FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE: $300,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE: $250,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetROBBIES HOUSE: $250,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetJACKS HELPING HAND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network: $200,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $200,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $175,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTUMBLEWEED CREATIVE ARTS: $160,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetWESTERN STATES LEARNING CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWyoming Pathways: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetJOHNSON CO FRIENDS FEEDING FRIENDS: $129,288 over 2y, 72% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,087 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPOLESTAR-OUTDOORS INC: $120,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetMAKER SPACE 307: $117,520 over 1y, 31% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $110,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSLOW FOOD USA INC: $99,986 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: $86,038 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetUPRISING: $67,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMOORCROFT INTERFAITH COMMUNITY: $65,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING: $55,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetROCK ON SOCIETY: $55,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetOne22 Inc: $52,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE FOR 2 BROTHERS FOUNDATION: $51,300 over 1y, 55% 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.

Wyoming Community Fou…Community Foundation …First Interstate Banc…Wyoming Assn of Non P…Hughes Charitable Fou…The John P Ellbogen F…The Andrew Allen Char…Wyoming Governor's Re…The McMurry FoundationWyoming Humanities Co…Karl M Johnson Founda…Bnsf Railway Foundati…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY83.9× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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%6%25%56%100%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
    32report 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 153 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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