How much does John L McHugh Foundation give?

John L McHugh Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $187,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does John L McHugh Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Arts & Culture (23%), International (11%).

Who are John L McHugh Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($46k), Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc ($39k), The Actors' Fund of America ($39k).

Does John L McHugh Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John L McHugh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as John L McHugh Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is John L McHugh Foundation based?

John L McHugh Foundation is based in MA.

John L McHugh Foundation

John L McHugh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John L McHugh 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.

$187k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$274kArts & Culture$239kInternational$117kFood & Nutrition$98kHousing & Shelter$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kEnvironment$37kMembership Benefit$28kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$7,000
BROADWAY CARES	$6,000
FOOD BANK FOR NYC	$6,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$6,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS	$6,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND	$6,000
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM	$6,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$6,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE	$6,000
WORLD VISION UKRAINE CRISIS	$5,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
NEW DRAMATISTS	$5,000
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS	$5,000
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 52 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$6k

Still filing today

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +98%
BC
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +43%
TA
THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +80%

Funded once

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AMERICAN RED CROSS - HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF
one grant, 2017 · $3k
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS - HURRICANE FLORENCE RELIEF
one grant, 2018 · $3k

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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United Hospital Fund of New York

Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)

Health

Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

40 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. 40 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

29/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$475,000Arts & Culture$194,000Health$133,000International$112,300Housing & Shelter$47,000Food & Nutrition$42,000Membership Benefit$39,000

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

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.

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 New York Community TrustNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 L McHugh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John L McHugh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report 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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