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John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$413k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$469kCommunity Improvement$411kHealth$309kYouth Development$285kCrime & Legal$205kHousing & Shelter$125kArts & Culture$112kPhilanthropy$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEFY VENTURES FBO ILLINOIS PROGRAMS$133,000
SAFE HAVEN - FBO WOMEN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE$30,000
ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION$25,000
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT$20,000
IMERMAN ANGELS$20,000
CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE FBO SELF EMPLOYMENT ARTS PROGRAM$12,500
ILLINOIS COALITION TO END PERMANENT PUNISHMENTS$10,000
MISERICORDIA$10,000
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$10,000
FUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SHERIDAN MCGUANE BASEBALL LEAGUE$10,000
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY FBO COLEMAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $5k → 7%INSPIRATION CORP: $10k → 14%INSPIRATION CORP: $10k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 14%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
34

Total granted

$1.8M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

53%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • IA
    IMERMAN ANGELS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +32%
  • TG
    THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +399%
  • CE
    COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • FF
    FUTURE FOUNDERS COLLEGE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
4
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

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.

Education
5
Students Run Chicago
Health
6
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

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…

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7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
Illinois Opportunity Project

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…

Public Benefit
11
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
12
Illinois College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Arts Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 77 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEFY VENTURES FBO ILLINOIS PROGRAMS: $403,000 · OtherDEFY VENTURES FBO ILLINOIS PROGRAMSILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $71,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $57,500 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB OF CHICAGO: $54,000 · OtherSAFE HAVEN - FBO WOMEN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $45,000 · Other+48 more: $633,750 · Other+48 moreFUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION: $195,000 · EducationFUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATIO…THE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $120,000 · EducationTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENC…COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $97,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS …SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $50,000 · EducationSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NAT…North Central College: $24,000 · Education+5 more: $30,000 · Education+5 moreIMERMAN ANGELS: $125,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $23,000 · HealthChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $20,000 · HealthJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $85,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporation: $20,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $12,500 · Community ImprovementSafer Foundation: $50,000 · Crime & LegalJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,334,250Education$516,000Health$178,000Human Services$110,000Community Improvement$82,500Crime & Legal$60,000Civil Rights$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $125,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $120,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $97,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $71,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSafer Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSMART POLICY WORKS: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Cara Program: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Central College: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONEYTHINK: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTREETWISE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEXT PICTURE SHOW INC: $15,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Coast Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSKINNER SCHOOL FORUM: $7,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCPA ENDOWMENT FUND OF ILLINOIS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION: $500 over 2y, 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 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 ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MONEYTHINK ↗
  • Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
  • Who funds STREETWISE ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW INC ↗

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 Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Joseph & Bessie Feinb…The Coleman Foundatio…Chicago Foundation fo…United Way of Metropo…Tides FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…
The Chicago Community TrustIL25.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to John E & Jeanne T Hughes Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 77 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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