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Preston G Hughes Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$359kReligion$281kEducation$47kArts & Culture$45kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$9kCommunity Improvement$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-$82,800
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$4,000
ENSIGN COLLEGE$1,000
SALT LAKE CHILDRENS CHOIR$1,000
ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL$500
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 (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Cross Roads Urban Center: $300 → 8%The Road Home: $500 → 8%American Indian Services: $2k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
SD
IA
CA
UT
KY
MD
DC
HI
LA
AL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$643k · 25 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
62

Total granted

$643k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+5%

Still filing today

28%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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 & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • SL
    SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +131%
  • SL
    Salt Lake Childrens Choir
    6× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Utah School of Denist
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IF
    Intermountain Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UC
    Utah Community Action
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Utah Festival Opera Company

Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
4
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
5
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
6
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
7
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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8
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

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10
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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11
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
12
The Utah Scholarship Foundation

To provide scholarships for Utah residents between the ages of 18 and 28 who have graduated from high school and are seeking additional educational opportunities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Music School Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Scots On the Rocks. 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

27 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. 27 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $520,189 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-: $82,800 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-+70 more: $168,251 · Other+70 moreSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Arts & CulturePARKER THEATRE OF THE ARTS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSCOTS ON THE ROCKS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTOPAZ MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $750 · Arts & CultureUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationOUR CHILDRENS FRIEND INC: $2,000 · EducationGALILEAN HOMES MINISTRIES: $1,000 · EducationSalt Lake Education Foundation: $4,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMIRACLE OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWasatch Homeless Health Care: $3,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Indian Services: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $500 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center: $300 · Human ServicesUTAH STATE JR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$771,240Arts & Culture$18,750Education$7,000Philanthropy$6,500Health$5,000Human Services$2,300Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Lake Childrens Choir: $9,500 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR CHILDRENS FRIEND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetPARKER THEATRE OF THE ARTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTS ON THE ROCKS: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTOPAZ MUSEUM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALILEAN HOMES MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH STATE JR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Metropolitan Ballet: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR THE KIDS ORG: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION ESCALERA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $250 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 SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Childrens Choir ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds OUR CHILDRENS FRIEND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKER THEATRE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds American Indian Services ↗
  • Who funds SCOTS ON THE ROCKS ↗
  • Who funds TOPAZ MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…George S and Dolores …Beesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Bill and Pat Child Fa…Wheeler FoundationB W Bastian FoundationJoan and Tim Fenton F…The Ashton Family Fou…Lawrence & Janet Dee …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · B W Bastian Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 Preston G Hughes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Preston G Hughes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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 Preston G Hughes Foundation Inc 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 91 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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