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Suzan Hughes Education 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$99kYouth Development$52kHuman Services$19kInternational$18kCrime & Legal$14kArts & Culture$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$886k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$25,000
YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $1k → 10%ZERO TO THREE - NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLE: $500 → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 → 14%LANGO FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FIRST STAR: $3k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $1k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $1k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $500 → 14%EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $500 → 14%SHE READY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NY
NV
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 18 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
29

Total granted

$175k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • YV
    YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +63%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +219%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
2
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.

Health
3
All for Kids Organization

This year, all for kids provided 70,000 at-risk children and parents living in los angeles and orange counties with services that include school readiness, parenting classes, family resource centers, support groups, mental health…

Human Services
4
Fotc - Los Angeles

Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Education
5
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
6
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
7
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
8
California Children's Academy

Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.

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9
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
10
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
11
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
12
California Children and Families Foundation Inc

The mission of the california children and families foundation is to promote, support, and improve the health and early development of children, from the prenatal stage through five years of age.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Operation Liberation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#0#6#16#7#14#13Affordable Housing Developm…#5#4#10
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,518

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $37,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AME…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INCELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC+6 more — $7,000 · Health+6 moreYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATI…The Everychild Foundation — $7,000 · Human ServicesThe Everychild Foundati…FIRST STAR INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFIRST STAR INCYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,000 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COM…LANGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $2,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER — $2,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,000 · Human Services+3 moreALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $13,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSA PLACE CALLED HOME — $11,300 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMEGOOD SHEPHERD — $10,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERDCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE I — $5,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND R…Topanga Community Club Inc — $3,000 · OtherNEW ROADS SCHOOL — $3,000 · OtherMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $4,000 · OtherHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $3,000 · OtherPLANET HOPE — $5,000 · OtherPLANET HOPEFRESH AIR FUND — $3,500 · OtherOPERATION LIBERATION — $3,000 · Other+9 more — $12,750 · Other+9 moreMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN UNITING NATIONS INC — $10,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,500 · InternationalKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · InternationalFUNDACION LUCHEMOS POR LA VIDA INC — $10,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,000 · Community ImprovementMALIBU FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$84,500Human Services$56,000Other$77,050Arts & Culture$13,000International$13,000Community Improvement$11,500Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $11,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN UNITING NATIONS INC — $10,500 over 3y, 56% of budgetFUNDACION LUCHEMOS POR LA VIDA INC — $10,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Everychild Foundation — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLANET HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFIRST STAR INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTopanga Community Club Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION LIBERATION — $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARE AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHE READY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Conrad N Hilton Found…The Rose Hills Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Green FoundationBaby2babyThe Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Tides FoundationThe Chicago Community…
California Community FoundationCA21.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Green Foundation · Baby2baby · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Suzan Hughes Education Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Suzan Hughes Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Suzan Hughes Education Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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