Illinois · Private foundation
John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $413k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $133,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $388k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $324k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $331k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $250k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $240k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $301k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $236k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $178k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Founders Foundation | $195,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Imerman Angels | $125,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Gray Matter Experience Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization | $97,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Chicago Furniture Bank | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Illinois Arts Alliance | $71,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Safer Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scripted Inc Dba Code Nation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Restore Justice Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Smart Policy Works | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation
- How much does John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation give?
- John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $412,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Community Improvement (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Future Founders Foundation ($195k), Imerman Angels ($125k), The Gray Matter Experience Inc ($120k).
- Does John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation based?
- John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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