How much does The Mark Hughes Foundation give?

The Mark Hughes Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $595,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Mark Hughes Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Youth Development (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are The Mark Hughes Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westside Food Bank ($300k), A Place Called Home ($250k), Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc ($240k).

Does The Mark Hughes Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mark Hughes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mark Hughes Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is The Mark Hughes Foundation based?

The Mark Hughes Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

The Mark Hughes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$595k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 21
Grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 26%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 34; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $13M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Mark Hughes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	21	$595k	19%
FY2023	27	$750k	26%
FY2022	25	$680k	16%
FY2021	31	$765k	35%
FY2020	26	$980k	54%
FY2019	34	$820k	26%
FY2018	29	$760k	41%
FY2017	32	$765k	n/a

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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 2024.

Education$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MArts & Culture$990kHuman Services$715kHealth$710kFood & Nutrition$625kRecreation & Sports$315kHousing & Shelter$275kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Westside Food Bank	$300,000	7	2%
A Place Called Home	$250,000	6	1%
Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc	$240,000	8	3%
Las Familias Del Pueblo	$235,000	7	12%
The Play Equity Fund	$225,000	4	4%
Skirball Cultural Center	$200,000	5	0%
The Wende Museum of the Cold War Inc	$175,000	4	1%
La Family Housing Corporation	$150,000	5	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Venice	$150,000	5	2%
Inner-City Arts	$135,000	6	1%

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All grantees of The Mark Hughes Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Westside Food Bank	$300,000	7	2%
A Place Called Home	$250,000	6	1%
Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc	$240,000	8	3%
Las Familias Del Pueblo	$235,000	7	12%
The Play Equity Fund	$225,000	4	4%
Skirball Cultural Center	$200,000	5	0%
The Wende Museum of the Cold War Inc	$175,000	4	1%
La Family Housing Corporation	$150,000	5	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Venice	$150,000	5	2%
Inner-City Arts	$135,000	6	1%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$125,000	3	1%
Casa of Los Angeles	$120,000	5	1%
PF Bresee Foundation	$120,000	4	1%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$110,000	4	0%
College Track	$110,000	4	0%
Venice Family Clinic	$110,000	5	0%
Sharewell	$100,000	1	2%
Mar Vista Family Center	$100,000	4	2%
California Science Center Foundation	$100,000	2	0%
Art Center College of Design	$100,000	2	0%
Para Los Ninos	$95,000	4	0%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc	$95,000	4	2%
School on Wheels Inc	$95,000	3	1%
The Los Angeles Police Academy Magnet School Foundation	$90,000	4	17%
Common Threads	$85,000	4	1%
California Hospital Medical Center Foundation	$75,000	3	0%
Northridge Hospital Foundation	$75,000	3	0%
Loyola Marymount University	$75,000	2	0%
Minds Matter of Los Angeles Inc	$70,000	5	8%
United Friends of the Children	$70,000	2	1%
Culver City Council of PTAs	$70,000	2	44%
Westside Family Health Center	$60,000	3	0%
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Friends of Expo Center	$60,000	3	4%
West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation	$55,000	2	5%
Marianne Frostig Ctr of Edu Therapy	$50,000	3	0%
St John's Community Health	$50,000	2	0%
National Children's Chorus	$50,000	2	1%
Santa Monica Education Foundation	$50,000	4	0%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation	$50,000	2	1%
Vision to Learn	$50,000	2	0%
The Blind Childrens Center Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$50,000	3	0%
Child Development Institute	$50,000	2	1%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$45,000	2	0%
Ladylike Foundation	$45,000	2	6%
Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health	$40,000	2	0%
Genesis the Schlesinger Academy for Innovation	$35,000	2	3%
Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association	$35,000	3	3%
Upward Bound House	$30,000	1	0%
White Memorial Community Health Center	$30,000	1	0%
Community Health Alliance of Pasadena	$30,000	3	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California	$25,000	1	0%
Puente Learning Center	$25,000	1	1%
Jovenes Inc	$25,000	1	0%
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company	$25,000	1	2%
Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles	$25,000	1	0%
The Los Angeles Free Clinic	$25,000	1	0%
Wise Readers to Leaders	$25,000	1	3%
Strive Foundation	$25,000	2	1%
Union Rescue Mission	$25,000	1	0%
Diy Girls	$25,000	1	1%
Educating Students Together Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley	$25,000	1	n/a
Union Station Homeless Services	$25,000	1	0%
City Year Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Century Villages at Cabrillo Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Project Grad Los Angeles Inc	$20,000	1	5%
The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services	$20,000	1	0%
Orangewood Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Coalition for Engaged Education	$15,000	1	1%
PS Science	$15,000	1	2%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Kidsave International Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Providence Little Company of Mary Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Eaa Chapter 40 San Fernando Valley Ca	$10,000	1	n/a
Wayfinder Family Services	$10,000	1	0%
Korean American Family Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Operation California Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship	$10,000	1	0%
Special Olympics Southern California Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Student Lunchbox Inc	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($540k), not named here.

The Mark Hughes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 80.

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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 Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA60.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Weingart Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Carrie Estelle Doheny 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.

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About The Mark Hughes Foundation

How much does The Mark Hughes Foundation give?: The Mark Hughes Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $595,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Mark Hughes Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Youth Development (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The Mark Hughes Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westside Food Bank ($300k), A Place Called Home ($250k), Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc ($240k).
Does The Mark Hughes Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mark Hughes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mark Hughes Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is The Mark Hughes Foundation based?: The Mark Hughes Foundation is based in CA.