· Private foundation
R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $842k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARRETT PARADISE FRIENDLY LIBRARY | $319,900 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $265,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $257,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $168,579 |
| POCONO MOUNTAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $158,955 |
| EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FDN | $152,673 |
| EASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $116,000 |
| LVHN-POCONO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $97,267 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $90,000 |
| MONROE CAREER & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $79,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY INC | $72,250 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY ECUMENICAL NETWORK | $65,000 |
| SAFE MONROE | $60,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $55,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $931k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +18% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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
- MCMONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +259% · 42% of their budget
- ESEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $870k · revenue +18%
- EMEASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $615k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- TWTHE WEST END VOLUNTEER FIRE COone grant, 2020 · $250k
- SLSTROUDSBURG LITTLE BETHEL HIST ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $103k
- AWANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF MONROEone grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue -25%
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.
To assist at-risk individuals
Growing monroe county's economy by creating new and diversified job opportunities for its citizens.
Provide emergency ambulance services
Pocono mountains united way's mission is to engage and mobilize resources to improve lives through accelerated community change.
Enhance the quality of life for member families and promote the understanding of agriculture in our community while protecting our environment.
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Preservation, restoration and acquisition of historical sites and artifacts located and relating to the history of monroe county and promote local history.
Provide all residents of monroe county alabama opportunities to pursue lifelong learning by offering free access to various resources.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
Public lending library
To provide services to senior citizens of Monroe County, West Virinia
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of the Poconos Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rimrock Masonic Center Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 45 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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO MOUNTAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC ↗
- Who funds BLAKESLEE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Devereux Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF MONROE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WATER GAP CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RIMROCK MASONIC CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Hughes Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Pocono Mountains United Way · Mount Airy Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Weiler Family Foundation Inc · The Ann and Joseph Farda Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 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.
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.