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Hughes Foundation at a glance

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Hughes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$122kYouth Development$25kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$8kHealth$5kMembership Benefit$5kInternational$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,280
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,200
BOYS GIRLS CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN LEGION POST 0246$5,000
TRI-STATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,280
LEWISTON HIGH SCHOOL$1,200
LILI GC FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$735
WA STATE SCHOOL RETIREES ASSOCIATIO$600
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 (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTMAS ANGELS: $2k → 11%CHRISTMAS ANGELS: $1k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $2k → 16%VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$165k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

36%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VC
    Valley Community Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +139%
  • CA
    Christmas Angels Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +9%
  • TC
    TWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +79%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF LEWISTON
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • AC
    ASOTIN COUNTY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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3
Lake Chelan Food Bank

The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.

Food & Nutrition
4
Kettle Falls Community Chest

Food is collected through donations and purchases, then distributed on an as needed basis.

—
5
Sierra Health Foundation
Health
6
Angelic Health Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Human Services
7
Lincoln Health Foundation
Health
8
Razi Health Foundation Inc

Razi Health Foundation is a network of volunteer physicians and philanthropists with a goal of providing medical and non-medical assistance, specially at times of national and global emergencies and disasters for those in need.

—
9
Columbia Falls Food Bank

Provide food to local needy

Food & Nutrition
10
Three Angels Clinic Inc
—
11
Veterans Memorial Hospital Healthcare Foundation

Fundraising for hospital

—
12
California Chronic Care Coalition

To improve the health care system where all Californians can access appropriate, affordable, quality health care through education and collaboration with all branches of government and key stakeholders to re-design a system of care

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-State Hospital Foundation Dba Tristate Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Christmas Angels Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $52,256 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30,000 · OtherWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGEBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $25,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $23,620 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE: $13,500 · OtherLEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · Other+13 more: $16,970 · Other+13 moreValley Community Center: $3,000 · Human ServicesChristmas Angels Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $2,000 · Human ServicesTRI-STATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA TRISTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,490 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · InternationalLILI GC FOUNDATION CORP: $1,000 · PhilanthropyIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $950 · Food & Nutrition
Other$169,846Human Services$8,000Health$3,490International$3,000Philanthropy$1,000Food & Nutrition$950

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 budgetValley Community Center: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChristmas Angels Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA TRISTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,490 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLILI GC FOUNDATION CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $950 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Valley Community Center ↗
  • Who funds Christmas Angels Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds TRI-STATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA TRISTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds LILI GC FOUNDATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗

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.

The Avista FoundationPotlatch No1 Financia…Innovia FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
The Avista FoundationWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Potlatch No1 Financial Credit Union · Innovia Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hughes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hughes 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 27 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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