· Private foundation
Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $54,000 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $52,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $27,250 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY ZANESVILLE | $25,750 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $14,750 |
| PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $14,500 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $12,250 |
| MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $9,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY | $7,500 |
| INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $7,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
102 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMarietta College5× · 2021–2025 · $52k · revenue +13%
- TUThe University of Findlay4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +4%
- UOUniversity of Dayton4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEWARKone grant, 2022 · $8k
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 187 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
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