· Private foundation
Hugs Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPLOYEES OF ADAMS REESE IMPACTED B | $17,850 |
| STARC OF LOUISIANA INC | $5,314 |
| OTHER CHARITIES 1000 EACH | $5,111 |
| ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL | $4,122 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,544 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES OF TAMPA | $2,778 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY'S SUNCOAST RECOVERY FUND | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| EMPLOYEES OF ADAMS REESE IMPACTED B | $1,997 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,909 |
| FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN | $1,609 |
| OTHER INDIVIDUALS 1000 EACH | $1,561 |
| EMPLOYEES OF ADAMS REESE IMPACTED B | $1,550 |
| SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY | $1,500 |
| GLADEWAVES INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- HIHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +27%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +57%
- FBFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- EOEMPLOYEES OF ADAMS & REESE IMPACTED BY HURRICANE IDAone grant, 2021 · $23k
- USUKRAINE SAVE THE CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $16k
- AEAVERITT EXPRESS CO DIASTER RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
Who we are: southeast louisiana legal services (slls) is the largest non-profit law firm in louisiana whose mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community…
To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
To provide exceptional & individualized medical, emotional, social & spiritual support to anyone facing an advanced or terminal illness in a manner that respects & enhances quality of life enduring that everyone, regardless of their…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
To empower adults and children living in louisiana who have mental, physical, behavioral, and other challenges to improve the quality of their lives and to live as independently as possible in their communities by facilitating personal…
Child advocacy services gives voice, healing, and security to children in ten parishes in southeast louisiana through its casa program, children's advocacy program, and prevention education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is Jaeger Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 90 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 HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MANASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds STARC OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds ARABIA SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hugs 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.
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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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