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JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION
JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,994 to it, the largest being Tuchman Family Foundation co Mantucket Capital Mgmt Corp ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Junior League of Birmingham Inclocal
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $257k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION’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
JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Junior League of Birmingham InclocalAL · funds 64 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorage Alumni Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haupt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe & Rae Weingarten Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bohnert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION?
- JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,994 to it, the largest being Tuchman Family Foundation co Mantucket Capital Mgmt Corp ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $505,994 in grants to JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION?
- Tuchman Family Foundation co Mantucket Capital Mgmt Corp is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES E HUGHES JR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing