· Private foundation
Hughes Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC | $35,000 |
| DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES OF MONROE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| SAFE MONROE | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES SHEPHERD'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| LVHN - POCONO FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| POCONO CONCERT CHORALE | $7,500 |
| MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $5,000 |
| BARRETT PARADISE FRIENDLY LIBRARY | $2,700 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $1,017 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PAPOCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +30%
- SUSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $181k · revenue +49%
- MCMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PMPOCONO MOUNTAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To assist at-risk individuals
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
To provide, maintain, operate and support a free public library in monroe county, pa
The montour falls library creates an environment that nurtures intellectual freedom, encourages lifelong learning, offers open access to resources, supports new technologies, respects cultural diversity, and embraces the future.
Enhance the quality of life for member families and promote the understanding of agriculture in our community while protecting our environment.
To provide services to Monroe County residents with mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse needs.
Pocono mountains united way's mission is to engage and mobilize resources to improve lives through accelerated community change.
Provide Scholarships for Higher Education
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Growing monroe county's economy by creating new and diversified job opportunities for its citizens.
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monroe County Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pocono Mountain Public Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POCONO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds POCONO MOUNTAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds QUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Mount Airy Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Allone Charities · Ppl Foundation · Pocono Mountains United Way · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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