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Sarah M Hughes Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sarah M Hughes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$900k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$3.4MEducation$515kHuman Services$100k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $575k
$225,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$575,000
FRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH$225,000
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $50k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $100k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 7 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$3.4M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+92%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $633k · revenue +27%
  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $515k · revenue +40%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +92%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • FN
    FIRST NIGHT PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health
2
Swedish Health Services

To improve the health and well-being of each person we serve.

Health
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
Providence Portland Medical Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
5
Providence Saint John's Medical Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
6
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
7
Providence Hospice & Home Care Foundation Snohomish County

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
8
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Providence Trinitycare Hospice Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Human Services
10
Southern California University of Health Sciences

To educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics, scholarship, service and leadership through its offerings of bachelor,…

Education
11
Providence Children's Health Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

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12
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,300,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $633,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $625,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $515,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYFRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH: $225,000 · OtherFRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCHSeattle Children's Foundation: $200,000 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation+2 more: $125,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $125,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 · Health
Other$3,623,000Human Services$235,000Health$135,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $633,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $515,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $125,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sarah M Hughes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah M Hughes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.

    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 12 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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