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The Donald Hughes Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 41
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$108k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations The Donald Hughes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$5k100%
FY202338$130k3%
FY202237$122k8%
FY202133$40k3%
FY202035$40k6%
FY201941$148k83%
FY20184$22k100%
FY201712$22kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$155kPhilanthropy$82kHuman Services$80kHousing & Shelter$73kHealth$53kEducation$30kArts & Culture$17kReligion$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CO
NE
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The Donald Hughes Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greensboro Urban Ministry$36,50060%
Covenant House$20,50040%
Room at the Inn Inc$13,00050%
Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation$12,00020%
Smile Train Inc$10,00020%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$8,30050%
Greensboro Children's Museum Inc$8,00050%
Sanctuary House Inc$8,00050%
Caring Services Inc$6,50050%
Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc$6,00050%
Authoracare Collective$5,00020%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$4,50050%
Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte$4,00010%
Converse University$3,50050%
March of Dimes Inc$2,90050%
Guilford Battleground Company$2,90055%
Greensboro Beautiful Inc$1,90050%
St Vincent de Paul Society$1,0002n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$60010%
Jamestown United Methodist Church Inc$5001n/a
Special Olympics Inc$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($371k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Donald Hughes Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreensboro Urban Ministry: $36,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoom at the Inn Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRichard Hampton Jenrette Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro Children's Museum Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary House Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCaring Services Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAuthoracare Collective: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConverse University: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford Battleground Company: $2,900 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetGreensboro Beautiful Inc: $1,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Stout Family Foundation · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About The Donald Hughes Family Foundation

How much does The Donald Hughes Family Foundation give?
The Donald Hughes Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Donald Hughes Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (29%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are The Donald Hughes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greensboro Urban Ministry ($37k), Covenant House ($21k), Room at the Inn Inc ($13k).
Does The Donald Hughes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Donald Hughes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Donald Hughes Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, The Stout Family Foundation, The Hummel Family Fund Inc.
Where is The Donald Hughes Family Foundation based?
The Donald Hughes Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 60 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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