· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES SHEPHERD'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SAFE MONROE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hughes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hughes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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