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John C Hughes Foundation at a glance

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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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$240kReligion$173kFood & Nutrition$92kHuman Services$65kArts & Culture$45kHealth$30kInternational$23kAnimals$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP FIRE ALASKA COUNCIL$28,000
ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON PARISH$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FOOD BANK OF ALASKA$15,000
TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHCENTRAL$5,000
BETHEL SEARCH & RESCUE$5,000
THE HUFFMAN FOUNDATION$5,000
ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT$2,000
ANTHC$1,000
ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM$1,000
THE ROSCOE FUND$874
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $2k → 9%BATTLE DAWGS: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 10%COVENENT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENENT HOUSE ALASKA: $5k → 10%COVENENT HOUSE ALASKA: $3k → 10%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$860k · 14 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$860k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FB
    Food Bank of Alaska
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +83%
  • BS
    BETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +7%
  • TW
    Tundra Womens Coalition
    8× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • WD
    WESTERN DOMINICAN PROVINCE
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • DF
    DOLLARS FOR DOGS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -69%
  • GH
    GIRDWOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -42%
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
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
2
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
3
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
4
Alaskan Animal Rescue Friends

To further animal welfare, advocacy, rescue, and adoption placement, as well as spay/neuter education and assistance.

Animals
5
The Aleut Foundation
Education
6
Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Arctic Access Inc

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.

Health
8
Alaska Association for Historic Pre

To educate the public about hisroric preservation and help restore and preserve historic sites.

Unclassified
9
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
10
Alaska Airlines Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
12
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP FIRE ALASKA COUNCIL: $161,500 · OtherCAMP FIRE ALASKA COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $137,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ELIZABETH ANN SETON PARISH: $87,500 · OtherST ELIZABETH ANN SETON PARISHHOLY FAMILY PARISH ANCHORAGE: $85,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY PARISH ANCHORAGEIndividual grant recipient: $78,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTundra Womens Coalition: $62,500 · OtherTundra Womens Coalition+8 more: $66,457 · Other+8 moreFood Bank of Alaska: $91,750 · Food & NutritionFood Bank …BETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE: $73,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBETHEL SE…ALASKA AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALASKA AV…Alaska Aviation Museum: $33,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM: $9,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native Medical Center Auxil: $17,500 · HealthGIRDWOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,000 · HealthALASKA MEN'S RUN: $1,000 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $12,500 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBattle Dawgs: $1,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Social Services: $1,000 · Human ServicesDOLLARS FOR DOGS INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$678,707Food & Nutrition$91,750Public Safety & Disaster$78,500Arts & Culture$47,000Health$28,500Human Services$16,500Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank of Alaska: $91,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE: $73,500 over 9y, 20% of budgetTundra Womens Coalition: $62,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAlaska Aviation Museum: $33,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAlaska Native Medical Center Auxil: $17,500 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRDWOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALASKA MEN'S RUN: $1,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBattle Dawgs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $1,000 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 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 ALASKA MEN'S RUN ↗
  • Who funds Battle Dawgs ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗

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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationAtwood Foundation IncThe Carr Foundation I…The Sholton FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…Alaska Native Tribal …Providence Health & S…M J Murdock Charitabl…Gottstein Family Foun…Bethel Community Serv…Swanson Family Founda…
The Alaska Community FoundationAK35× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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