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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 it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Helping Hand Rescue Mission$3,000
American Cancer Society$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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 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
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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Brook School; 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 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. 10 of the 20 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $750 · OtherYouth Family Counseling: $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 · InternationalFeeding America: $2,500 · Food & NutritionSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyDEAN COLLEGE: $1,500 · Education
Other$20,500Arts & Culture$5,000Health$3,000International$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,500Philanthropy$2,500Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $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
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.

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

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 James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James E & Elizabeth B Hughes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: 26% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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