· Private foundation
John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of JOHN E & JEANNE T HUGHES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEFY VENTURES FBO ILLINOIS PROGRAMS | $133,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN - FBO WOMEN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $30,000 |
| ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK | $20,000 |
| IMERMAN ANGELS | $20,000 |
| ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE FBO SELF EMPLOYMENT ARTS PROGRAM | $12,500 |
| COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION TO END PERMANENT PUNISHMENTS | $10,000 |
| JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $10,000 |
| REVOLUTION WORKSHOP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- IAIMERMAN ANGELS7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +32%
- TGTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +399%
- CECOLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FFFUTURE FOUNDERS COLLEGE PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $40k
- DVDEFY VENTURESone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The illinois opportunity project is an organization that participates in public policy by identifying policies driven by liberty and free enterprise and then educating the public about those policy choices and advocating for those policy…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Arts Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization. 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 77 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 FUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMART POLICY WORKS ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE ↗
- Who funds MONEYTHINK ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
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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 Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Tides Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois
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 E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable 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.
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Year Up 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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