· Private foundation
W Marshall Hughes Jr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEXA WRIGHT CO UCLA | $30,968 |
| MAVERICK REINHART CO PENN STATE UN | $19,000 |
| AMANDA SMITH CO GETTYSBURY COLLEGE | $19,000 |
| AUSTIN SNAVELY CO UNIV OF ROCHESTER | $19,000 |
| MCKENNA BUCKS CO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $16,800 |
| CARSON PALLADINO CO MILLERSVILLE UNIV | $11,300 |
Where the grant dollars land
Across the US and around the world.
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHUGHES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $526k
- AWALEXA WRIGHT CO UCLA3× · 2023–2025 · $78k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $50k
Funded once
- ASANDREW SANTORO CO LEBANON VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MGMIKAELA GATTO CO BERKLEE COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MSMAYA SIMMS CO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
0 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. 0 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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