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The Mark Hughes Foundation at a glance

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The Mark Hughes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$595k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAY EQUITY FUND$75,000
WESTSIDE FOOD BANK$50,000
WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR$50,000
A PLACE CALLED HOME$40,000
UPWARD BOUND HOUSE$30,000
P F BRESEE FOUNDATION$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD$30,000
COLLEGE TRACK$30,000
LAS FAMILIAS DEL PUEBLO$30,000
ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE (ANGEL CITY SPORTS)$25,000
JOVENES INC$25,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH$25,000
CAYTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (SHAREWELL)$25,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%JOVENES INC: $25k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $20k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $20k → 14%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 54 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
35

Total granted

$5.2M
$820k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WF
    WESTSIDE FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +348%
  • LF
    Las Familias Del Pueblo
    7× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +21%
  • TP
    THE PLAY EQUITY FUND
    4× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • S
    SHAREWELL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -46%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • PP
    PRESCOTT POPS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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5
Child Educational Center

The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.

Human Services
6
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
7
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
8
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
9
California Children's Academy

Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.

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10
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

—
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles

To provide a socio-economically, culturally and racially diverse community of students in the heart of Los Angeles with an intellectually challenging experiential learning environment that develops each individual student's confidence,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos; the most unlike its peers is Ladylike Foundation. 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

83 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. 83 of the 94 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
56/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A PLACE CALLED HOME: $250,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMELas Familias Del Pueblo: $235,000 · OtherLas Familias Del PuebloLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $150,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCH: $150,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCHPF Bresee Foundation: $120,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $110,000 · OtherMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME: $100,000 · OtherTHE LOS ANGELES POLICE ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $120,000 · Other+30 more: $965,000 · Other+30 moreSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURA…THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WENDE MUSEUM…INNER-CITY ARTS: $135,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSSHAREWELL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREWELLCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIEN…GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS …COMMON THREADS: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON THREADS+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $225,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY …COLLEGE TRACK: $110,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $100,000 · EducationART CENTER COLLE…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $95,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT…MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $50,000 · EducationMARIANNE FROSTIG…THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S…The Blind Childrens Center Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Blind Childr…GENESIS THE SCHLESINGER ACADEMY FOR INNOVATION: $35,000 · Education+5 more: $90,000 · Education+5 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS …MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES I…WISE READERS TO LEADERS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIVE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIY GIRLS: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $110,000 · HealthVENICE FAMI…CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA …WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $60,000 · HealthWESTSIDE FA…WEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthWEST COAST …VISION TO LEARN: $50,000 · HealthVISION TO L…CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 · HealthCHILD DEVEL…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $45,000 · HealthChildren's …PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $40,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC A…WHITE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF PASADENA: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $300,000 · Food & NutritionLADYLIKE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPARA LOS NINOS: $95,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $70,000 · Human ServicesJOVENES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,390,000Arts & Culture$915,000Education$880,000Youth Development$730,000Health$615,000Food & Nutrition$350,000Human Services$260,000

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 budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $300,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $250,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $240,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLas Familias Del Pueblo: $235,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $225,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $175,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $150,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $135,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $120,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAREWELL: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $95,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES POLICE ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOMMON THREADS: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $70,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCulver City Council of PTAs: $70,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLADYLIKE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS THE SCHLESINGER ACADEMY FOR INNOVATION: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% 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 Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…Elbridge Stuart Found…Weingart FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…The Green FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Carrie Estelle Doheny…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Mark Hughes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mark Hughes 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 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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