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The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$745k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL$15,750
Letters To Santa Charity$9,750
Voice of San Francisco$2,500
Oberlin College$2,000
San Francisco Baseball Acadment$1,150
City Hope of San Francisco$1,000
All Stars Project$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Jazz Foundation of America$1,000
Saint Josephs Art Foundation$500
Little League Baseball$500
Project Alianza$250
Junipero Serra High School$100
Movember$100
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 8%Letters To Santa Charity: $10k → 15%WEFAM UNITED INC: $250 → 13%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA: $100 → 10%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA: $50 → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $100 → 10%AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $250 → 10%AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $250 → 10%AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $250 → 10%AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $200 → 10%AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $100 → 10%City Hope of San Francisco: $1k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $500 → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $100 → 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
MT
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 35 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
52

Total granted

$121k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+29%

Still filing today

77%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • PG
    PROJECT GLIMMER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +936%
  • AS
    ALL STARS PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +50%
  • CO
    Children of Shelters
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • SF
    SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • TC
    TUESDAY'S CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -18%
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
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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2
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
San Francisco Junior Glens Soccer Association

To provide athletic opportunities to the youth of san francisco bay area by providing low cost opportunities to learn, play and participate in soccer by obtaining training in clinics, play and participate in leagues and tournaments.

Recreation & Sports
10
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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11
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is City Hope San Francisco. 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

80 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. 80 of the 96 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
52/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $23,750 · OtherIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOLSAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $16,800 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOLChildren of Shelters: $4,550 · OtherTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $5,000 · OtherTUESDAY'S CHILDREN+54 more: $37,880 · Other+54 moreSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $24,500 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARKS…SFBA: $4,400 · Recreation & SportsSFBA+7 more: $2,650 · Recreation & Sports+7 moreLETTERS TO SANTA CHARITY: $9,750 · Human ServicesLETTERS TO S…PROJECT GLIMMER: $5,100 · Human ServicesPROJECT GLIM…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,400 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS F…AIRCRAFT CASUALTY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE: $1,050 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesALL STARS PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureALL STARS P…VOICE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF SA…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA …SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCIS…CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION…BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA DI…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $840 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $400 · Public BenefitGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $4,600 · EnvironmentSIERRA WATCH: $1,500 · EnvironmentWHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC: $500 · EnvironmentSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJazz Foundation of America Inc: $1,200 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$87,980Recreation & Sports$31,550Human Services$20,300Arts & Culture$18,840Public Benefit$10,400Environment$6,600Philanthropy$6,300

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

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
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.

The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Hymowitz Family Found…Olympic Club Foundati…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Salesforce FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wefam United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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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