· Private foundation
John C Hughes Foundation
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 $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP FIRE ALASKA COUNCIL | $28,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON PARISH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF ALASKA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION | $10,000 |
| BETHEL SEARCH & RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHCENTRAL | $5,000 |
| THE HUFFMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM | $1,000 |
| ANTHC | $1,000 |
| THE ROSCOE FUND | $874 |
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 (FY17–19, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +54% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FBFood Bank of Alaska9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +83%
- BSBETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +7%
- TWTundra Womens Coalition8× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- WDWESTERN DOMINICAN PROVINCEone grant, 2023 · $23k
- DFDOLLARS FOR DOGS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
To further animal welfare, advocacy, rescue, and adoption placement, as well as spay/neuter education and assistance.
Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.
Our Mission is to provide services and opportunities for elders and people with disabilities to remain in the home and village of their choice, and to be active as possible with their families and communities.
To educate the public about hisroric preservation and help restore and preserve historic sites.
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anchorage Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds BETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Tundra Womens Coalition ↗
- Who funds Alaska Aviation Museum ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Medical Center Auxil ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds DOLLARS FOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRDWOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds ALASKA AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Battle Dawgs ↗
- Who funds ALASKA MEN'S RUN ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
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 Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · The Carr Foundation Inc · The Sholton Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Providence Health & Services - Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gottstein Family Foundation · Bethel Community Services Foundation · Swanson Family 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 John C Hughes Foundation 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.