· Private foundation
Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Chattahoochee Valley Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $7k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT | $2,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| GEORGIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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 +233% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $10k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT4× · 2017–2020 · $8k
- HCHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- THTHE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +48%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -44%
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.
The columbus foundation is entrusted to improve the quality of life for all its residents.
Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public
To save buildings, places and stories that define savannah's past, present and future.
Provide incentives and other support as well as the development of property for the economic benefit of the city of columbus and the surrounding area.
Identify, authenticate, collect, preserve, and interpret ohio's history.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The organization's primary purpose is to collect, preserve, and disseminate information about atlanta, georgia and its environs in order to connect people, history, and culture.
Preservation of historic sites
The mission of the jacksonville historical society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Columbus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hughston Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 11 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation ↗
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: Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc 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.
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