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The James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$6kArts & Culture$6kHousing & Shelter$4kHealth$4kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Cancer Society$3,000
Helping Hand Rescue Mission$3,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Dean College: $2k → 7%Make-A-Wish: $500 → 14%AllSides: $1k → 10%Youth Family Counseling: $750 → 6%Helping Hand Rescue Mission: $3k → 7%The Met: $500 → 17%AAAS: $2k → 14%Marco Island Academy: $500 → 10%Duke Hospice: $750 → 11%Habitat for Humanity: $3k → 22%World Vision: $3k → 9%Feeding America: $3k → 14%Far Brook School: $4k → 16%Collaboratory: $3k → 15%CHADD: $500 → 11%Ward Melville Heritage Organization: $5k → 7%The Boss Legacy Inc: $2k → 10%Habitat for Humanity: $2k → 22%Soundview Association: $1k → 7%The Boss Legacy Inc: $500 → 10%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

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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 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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
5
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
9
New West Charter School

The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Brook School and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Habitat for Humanity — $4,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityFAR BROOK SCHOOL — $4,000 · OtherFAR BROOK SCHOOLHELPING HANDS RESCUE MISSION INC — $3,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS RESCUE MISSION INCTHE BOSS LEGACY INC — $2,000 · OtherTHE BOSS LEGACY INCAAAS — $1,500 · OtherAAASAllSides — $1,000 · OtherSoundview Association — $1,000 · OtherYouth Family Counseling — $750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $750 · Other+5 more — $2,500 · Other+5 moreTHE WARD MELVILLE HERITAGE ORGANIZATION LTD — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WARD MELVIL…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN …WORLD VISION INC — $2,500 · InternationalSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyFeeding America — $2,500 · Food & NutritionDEAN COLLEGE — $1,500 · Education
Other$20,500Arts & Culture$5,000Health$3,000International$2,500Philanthropy$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,500Education$1,500

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 WARD MELVILLE HERITAGE ORGANIZATION LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAR BROOK SCHOOL — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCO ISLAND ACADEMY A PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER — $500 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.

Network for GoodDC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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