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Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 36
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$65k7%
FY202329$77k17%
FY202227$75k15%
FY202127$62k19%
FY202027$56k19%
FY201936$67k19%
FY201832$68k22%
FY201729$57kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$167kArts & Culture$111kEducation$54kHuman Services$53kYouth Development$34kEnvironment$23kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Soo Theatre Project Inc$47,50084%
Bay Cliff Health Camp$43,00080%
Salvation Army$24,0008n/a
Soo Locks Childrens Museum$17,00043%
Mymichigan Medical Center Sault$15,00020%
Chippewa County Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc$10,00072%
Superior Health Support Systemsinc$6,00030%
Sault Area Arts Council Inc$4,90082%
Chippewa County Family Project Inc$2,50010%
Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc$2,50010%
Soo Film Festival Inc$2,0004n/a
United Way of the Eastern Upper Peninsula$2,00011%
American Legion Post #3$1,5003n/a
Historical Society of Michigan$50010%

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($349k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSoo Theatre Project Inc: $47,500 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetBay Cliff Health Camp: $43,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSoo Locks Childrens Museum: $17,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMymichigan Medical Center Sault: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChippewa County Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSuperior Health Support Systemsinc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSault Area Arts Council Inc: $4,900 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetChippewa County Family Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreat Lakes Recovery Centers Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Eastern Upper Peninsula: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHistorical Society of Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Eup Community Foundation Alliance IMI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eup Community Foundation Alliance I · Superior Health Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation?

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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.

About Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation

How much does Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation give?
Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $64,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (10%).
Who are Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Soo Theatre Project Inc ($48k), Bay Cliff Health Camp ($43k), Salvation Army ($24k).
Does Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eup Community Foundation Alliance I, Superior Health Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation based?
Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation is based in MI.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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