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The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial 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.

$13M
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+2 grants · $13M
$13,256
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS (FJC)$12,489,551
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$600,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$75,000
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY$13,256
ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE (AAJC INC)$10,000
MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$10,000
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 (FY17–17, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISLAND ACADEMY: $25k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NM
DC
AL
TX

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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$281k · 8 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
37

Total granted

$281k
$553k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+72%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TL
    THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +66%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +82%
  • THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +202%
  • II
    ICIVICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +321%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +41%

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.

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American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
2
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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3
National Civil Justice Institute

The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…

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4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
12
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House California. 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 backsteadyNative Hawaiian Community D…Asian American Advocacy & H…Child and Family ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsClassical Music EnsemblesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Professional Ballet Compani…Land Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…
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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%73%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,716

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

44 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. 44 of the 53 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)
44/44
Grantees still filing
39/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS (FJC) — $12,489,551 · OtherA FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS (FJC)+22 more — $249,523 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,410,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANT…+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $285,000 · Community ImprovementEARTHJUSTICE — $65,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $73,256 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM — $35,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $7,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,250 · Arts & CultureICIVICS INC — $50,000 · EducationWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · EducationCCSA FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Education+4 more — $5,977 · Education
Other$12,739,074Philanthropy$2,412,500Community Improvement$285,000Environment$240,000Crime & Legal$148,256Arts & Culture$143,750Education$114,977

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,410,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $285,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $73,256 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetICIVICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $4,523 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCCSA FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANDID — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,977 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED INC — $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA14.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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How do I get to The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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