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Hughes Texas Foundation at a glance

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Hughes Texas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$2.2MEducation$514kHuman Services$475kPhilanthropy$50kHealth$41kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESUIT$1,021,700
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$80,000
CHRIST THE KING$70,000
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF DALLAS$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS$25,000
CRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREP$25,000
CAMP COURAGEOUS$500
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELLA HOUSE: $6k → 5%CAMP COURAGEOUS: $500 → 11%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +193% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$2.7M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+193%
+2%

Still filing today

10%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • J
    JESUIT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $498k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $435k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS
    one grant, 2019 · $133k
  • SM
    ST MARY OF CARMEL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SC
    ST CECILIA SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
2
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…

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3
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
4
Society of St Vincent De Paul Community Outreach of North Texas

The St. Vincent Center (SVC) Provide emergency assistance and systemic change relief to those in need in the neighborhoods of Lancaster, Texas, and the surrounding communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Community Homes for Adults Inc

Provide programs and services to enable adults with intellectual disabilities to live full, rich lives in a safe environment and to meaningfully participate in the community.

Human Services
6
Valley Residential Services

Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.

Health
7
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
8
Soupmobile Inc

Soupmobile, inc. is a non-profit mobile soup kitchen feeding, clothing, and caring for the needy and homeless in the dallas area. soupmobile also provides housing assistance for qualifying individuals.

Human Services
9
Christian Residential Opportunities & Social Services Inc

Group Homes

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10
Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Center of Dallas

Non-profit charity counseling center

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11
The Rose House

The Rose House helps adults with developmental disabilities pursue full, active lives by providing them and their families with: 1) Innovative choices for living and learning - 2) Opportunities for independent living to the full extent of…

Human Services
12
Guide Dogs of Texas Inc

Guide Dogs of Texas provides quality guide dogs for Texans who are visually impaired to increase their freedom, mobility and independence. We are committed to personalized service and lifelong dedication to our clients and their guide dogs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brazos Valley Community Service Center 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

8 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. 8 of the 32 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUIT: $1,178,300 · OtherJESUITST VINCENT DE PAUL: $497,500 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $434,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INCCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREP: $206,250 · OtherCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREPCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS: $133,333 · OtherURSULINE ACADEMY OF DALLAS FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 · OtherCHRIST THE KING: $112,000 · Other+20 more: $623,000 · Other+20 moreNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · HealthARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · HealthBella House Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $500 · Human Services
Other$3,317,383Education$25,000Health$21,000Human Services$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $434,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBella House Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $500 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Bella House Inc ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Jm Haggar Jr Family F…The Aileen and Jack P…The Fritz and Mary Le…Community Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jm Haggar Jr Family Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Fritz and Mary Lee Duda Family Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Texas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hughes Texas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    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.

    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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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