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The Hughes Family Foundation Inc

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.

$287k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$362kInternational$339kEnvironment$157kHuman Services$82kFood & Nutrition$56kPhilanthropy$32kCrime & Legal$19kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $252k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wine to Water$152,000
Samaritans Purse$100,000
Georgia Mountain Food Bank$10,000
Barrow County Food Pantry$10,000
Northeast Georgia Homeless Veterans$5,000
Mike Rowe Works Foundation$5,000
Toys for Tots$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Save our Allies: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$651k · 22 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
27

Total granted

$651k
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+59%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
EducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthInternationalOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue +134%
  • GC
    Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $93k · revenue +99%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $43k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW SCHOOLS GEORGIA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $240k
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +701%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
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
2
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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3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Schools Georgia 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

40 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. 40 of the 52 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW SCHOOLS GEORGIA INC: $239,840 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS GEORGIA INCGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $92,500 · EducationGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc+7 more: $13,530 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $330,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEWine to Water: $152,000 · EnvironmentWine to Water+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUN…Collegiate Academy of Albany: $16,000 · OtherCollegiate Academ…Barrow County Food Pantry: $15,000 · OtherBarrow County Foo…Northeast Georgia Homeless Veterans: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $10,000 · OtherSTATE POLICY NETW…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $9,000 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation: $8,500 · Other+19 more: $53,089 · Other+19 moreMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $20,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust Inc: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,023 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $11,150 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $8,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionEAGLE RANCH INC: $23,500 · HealthHemophilia of Georgia Inc: $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,000 · Health
Education$345,870Religion$330,500Environment$157,000Other$171,089Philanthropy$49,523Food & Nutrition$39,650Health$27,000

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $330,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWine to Water: $152,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $92,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $11,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave Our Allies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHemophilia of Georgia Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,089 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY: $500 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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 The Hughes Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hughes Family Foundation Inc. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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
    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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    How do I get to The Hughes Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Hughes Family 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 52 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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