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The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,750
Organizations funded a year
10 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$745k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$37k57%
FY202410$9k60%
FY202312$30k50%
FY202219$22k47%
FY202113$23k46%
FY202010$4k40%
FY201917$10k35%
FY201830$22k60%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$50kRecreation & Sports$42kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$14kArts & Culture$12kPublic Benefit$11kPhilanthropy$8kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco Parks Alliance$24,50060%
Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School$23,7503n/a
Seal-Nsw Family Foundation$10,00010%
Letters to Santa Charity$9,75012%
Project Glimmer$5,10050%
Seal Future Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Tuesday's Children$5,00010%
All Stars Project Inc$5,00040%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$4,60040%
Children of Shelters$4,55031%
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All grantees of The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco Parks Alliance$24,50060%
Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School$23,7503n/a
Seal-Nsw Family Foundation$10,00010%
Letters to Santa Charity$9,75012%
Project Glimmer$5,10050%
Seal Future Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Tuesday's Children$5,00010%
All Stars Project Inc$5,00040%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$4,60040%
Children of Shelters$4,55031%
Sfba$4,40050%
Voice of San Francisco Inc$3,50020%
Africa Foundation (Usa)$2,18040%
Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco$2,1006n/a
Summer Search$2,00020%
California Academy of Sciences$2,00020%
Cambridge in America$2,00010%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$2,00010%
Oberlin College$2,00010%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$2,00020%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,75040%
San Francisco Zoological Society$1,50010%
Sierra Watch$1,50020%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$1,50020%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,40020%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$1,20020%
Play Flag Football$1,200284%
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc$1,20020%
Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Service$1,05041%
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,00010%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc$1,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco$1,00020%
Salesian Boys and Girls Club$1,00020%
City Hope San Francisco$1,00010%
A Leg to Stand on Inc$1,00010%
Jamestown Community Center$1,00020%
Baylor University$1,00010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$1,00010%
San Francisco Symphony$84010%
Raphael House of San Francisco Inc$60020%
Baja Bound Ministries Fka National Youth Innovations Inc$50010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$50010%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$50010%
Saint Francis Foundation$50010%
Lifemoves$50010%
Wings Learning Center Inc$50010%
Saint Josephs Arts Foundation$5001n/a
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$50010%
Whitefish Legacy Partners Inc$50010%
San Francisco Little League Baseball$50010%
St Dominics Priory of San Francisco$5001n/a
Selah National Little League$50012%
The Exploratorium$50010%
San Francisco Suicide Prevention$50010%
Breakthrough T1d$35030%
More Than a Game$30011%
Wefam United Inc$25010%
San Jose Police Chaplaincy$25010%
Squashdrive$25010%
San Francisco Rebels$25010%
Kids & Art Foundation$25010%
United States Ski Team Foundation$25010%
Project Alianza Inc$25010%
GO2 For Lung Cancer$20020%
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation$20020%
Marin Rowing Association$20010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area$15020%
Dolphin Swimming and Boating Foundation$15020%
Judicial Watch Inc$10010%
Family House Inc$10010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10010%
Movember Foundation$10010%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$10010%
The Heritage Foundation$10010%
Park View Elementary School Parent Faculty Club$10010%
Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc$1001n/a
Students For Fair Admissions Inc$10010%
Defending Education$10010%
Institute for Humane Studies$10010%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy$10010%
Community Food Connections Inc$5010%
Operation Hope Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $24,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSeal-Nsw Family Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLetters to Santa Charity: $9,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetProject Glimmer: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Future Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTuesday's Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAll Stars Project Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Shelters: $4,550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSfba: $4,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVoice of San Francisco Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAfrica Foundation (Usa): $2,180 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSummer Search: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCambridge in America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Zoological Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Watch: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Discovery Museum: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlay Flag Football: $1,200 over 2y, 84% of budgetAgahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAircraft Casualty Emotional Support Service: $1,050 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalesian Boys and Girls Club: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Hope San Francisco: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Leg to Stand on Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJamestown Community Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaphael House of San Francisco Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaja Bound Ministries Fka National Youth Innovations Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifemoves: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings Learning Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitefish Legacy Partners Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Little League Baseball: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSelah National Little League: $500 over 1y, 1.6% 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 77.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA25.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Hymowitz Family Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation

How much does The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation give?
The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $36,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Parks Alliance ($25k), Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School ($24k), Seal-Nsw Family Foundation ($10k).
Does The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Justin and Michelle Hughes 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 Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation based?
The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation is based in CA.

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 96 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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