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HUGS FOUNDATION INC

HUGS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,098 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($132,650). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$816k
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$607k
Net assets
$3.2M
17/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Hugs Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide funding for teams of volunteer medical professionals which perform free surgeries to children and adolescents suffering from deformities or conditions that can be remedied through plastic surgery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide funding for teams of volunteer medical professionals which perform free surgeries to children and adolescents suffering from deformities or conditions that can be remedied through plactic surgery.

    $266,053 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $266,053.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($352k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($636k)2018 Revenue 130 ($457k) Expenses 119 ($234k) Net assets 134 ($851k)2019 Revenue 145 ($511k) Expenses 121 ($236k) Net assets 179 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 138 ($487k) Expenses 60 ($118k) Net assets 238 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 215 ($758k) Expenses 92 ($181k) Net assets 330 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 157 ($552k) Expenses 161 ($316k) Net assets 345 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 181 ($639k) Expenses 175 ($342k) Net assets 419 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 232 ($816k) Expenses 216 ($424k) Net assets 502 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (232)Expenses (216)Net assets (502)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.1M (+39%).

$636k
$851k
$1.1M
$1.5M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.7M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

47% of HUGS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,947 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$156k
’17
$223k
’18
$274k
’19
$369k
’20
$577k
’21
$237k
’22
$297k
’23
$391k
’24
14
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Vito Quatela Md

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1716141413131315
Joined·+5+2+0+2+0+1+2
No longer listed·6403010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $93k.

11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HUGS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HUGS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HUGS FOUNDATION INC.

22%
largest funder
51%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 37% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 66% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of HUGS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

66% of HUGS FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $205k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from New York funders.

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IA
OH
NJ
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HUGS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,527 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 35%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds HUGS FOUNDATION INC?
HUGS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,098 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($132,650). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HUGS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $607,098 in grants to HUGS FOUNDATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUGS FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $132,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUGS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing