Ohio · Private foundation
Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $373k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $54,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $371k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $297k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $290k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $357k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $319k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $295k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $272k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $226k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muskingum University | $239,125 | 5 | 0% |
| Kent State University | $71,575 | 5 | n/a |
| Marietta College | $51,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Miami University | $35,275 | 4 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $35,125 | 5 | 0% |
| Capital University | $32,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $23,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The University of Findlay | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $20,750 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Evansville | $17,900 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Verna M Griffee Trust · Columbus Foundation · Ella Weiss Educational Fund · Clapper Scholarship Fund · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ibm International Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Shelly Family Foundation · Coshocton Foundation
How this is measured
About Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust
- How much does Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust give?
- Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust reported 40 grants totaling $372,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Health (0%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Muskingum University ($239k), Kent State University ($72k), Marietta College ($52k).
- Does Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verna M Griffee Trust, Columbus Foundation, Ella Weiss Educational Fund.
- Where is Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust based?
- Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust is based in OH.
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