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Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$7k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

5
’17
5
’18
5
’19
5
’20
2
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$11MArts & Culture$68kEducation$8kHuman Services$4kHealth$2kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$2k
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT$2,000
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500
HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION$500
HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$500
GEORGIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME$500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 15%THE NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $5k → 16%THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM: $50k → 18%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 15%THE NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $5.7M → 18%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 15%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $3.3M → 18%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 15%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $1.5M → 18%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $739k → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $54k → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY: $32k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 → 18%HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 → 18%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%HISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $500 → 18%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 → 18%THE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION: $250k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 8 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +233% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$36k
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+233%
+48%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k
  • HC
    HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +233%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Columbus Foundation

The columbus foundation is entrusted to improve the quality of life for all its residents.

Philanthropy
2
The Columbus Museum

Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public

Arts & Culture
3
Historic Savannah Foundation Inc

To save buildings, places and stories that define savannah's past, present and future.

—
4
Columbus Economic Development

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.

Community Improvement
5
Ohio Historical Society

Identify, authenticate, collect, preserve, and interpret ohio's history.

Arts & Culture
6
The Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Historic Cobbham Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Atlanta Historical Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Columbus Medical Research
—
10
Historic Huntsville Foundation Inc

Preservation of historic sites

Arts & Culture
11
The Jacksonville Historical Society

The mission of the jacksonville historical society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.

—
12
The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Columbus Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $11,241,716 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INCTHE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $21,500 · OtherTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $2,000 · Health
Philanthropy$11,241,716Other$281,500Arts & Culture$52,000Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $11,241,716 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE HUGHSTON FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC LINWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jackson-Burgin Founda…The Jordan Foundation…Community Foundation …Ray M & Jane R Wright…Mildred Miller Fort F…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Lockwood Partners Fou…Georgia Power Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jackson-Burgin Foundation IncGA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Sarah H and Jack C Hughston Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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 11 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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