About Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation
The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Inc. makes highly concentrated, strategic gifts to philanthropic intermediaries rather than carrying out programmatic grants itself. Its single reported grant is a large, unrestricted contribution to A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC), indicating the foundation prefers to route funding through donor-advised or field-serving fiscal sponsors who then regrant or steward charitable dollars. This suggests the foundation prioritizes flexible, general support that can be deployed across multiple causes via an intermediary rather than targeting specific programs or geographies directly.
Focus Areas
Philanthropic intermediaries / fiscal sponsorship (support for organizations like FJC)Unrestricted/general operating support for regranting vehiclesEnabling donor-advised or field-facing philanthropic infrastructure
Who They Fund
general public/unspecified beneficiaries
Giving Approach
Extremely concentrated: a single, very large unrestricted grant to a philanthropic intermediary. No evidence of direct, repeated, or program-specific giving to operating nonprofits.
Funding Style
unrestricted/general operating support
About Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation
The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Inc. channels most of its reported 2023 grantmaking through philanthropic intermediaries and legal-aid organizations, with one grant far larger than the rest: $12,489,551 to A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC) for general use. That pattern points to a foundation that uses flexible, unrestricted support as a core tool, while also making smaller direct gifts to public-interest groups. The recent record also shows direct support for The Legal Aid Society in New York, along with equal $10,000 grants to Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC Inc), Equal Justice Initiative, Native American Rights Fund, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Those awards suggest a continuing interest in legal and human-rights work, especially for organizations serving communities that face barriers to counsel or civic participation. Although the foundation’s broader legacy includes education, environment, population and health, and arts and culture, the current grant record is narrowly concentrated. Its 2023 giving is dominated by general-use awards, including one very large intermediary grant and a cluster of smaller grants to national civil-rights and legal-aid organizations.
What Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Funds
Legal and human rights are visible in several of the foundation’s 2023 awards. It gave $13,256 to The Legal Aid Society for general use, followed by $10,000 grants to Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC Inc), Equal Justice Initiative, Native American Rights Fund, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The foundation also makes its largest reported grant through a philanthropic intermediary, giving $12,489,551 to A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC) for general use. That reflects support for philanthropic infrastructure rather than a single program. Across the record, the grants are unrestricted. The listed recipients operate in legal aid, civil rights, and grantmaking infrastructure, which fits a broad charitable approach rather than a tightly defined program portfolio.
How Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Gives
The reported 2023 distribution is highly uneven: p25 is $10,000, median is $11,628, and p75 is $206,250, while one grant reaches $12,489,551. That gap indicates a mix of very large intermediary support and much smaller direct awards. The foundation is not listed as funding individuals and does not make program-related investments. The recent record is all general-use support, and the same year includes both a major intermediary grant and several modest direct grants, showing a combination of institutional and public-interest giving.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$13.2M
Total Assets
$0
Total Revenue
$555K
Total Expenses
$13.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $206K, with a median of $12K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$12K
75th Percentile
$206K
Geographic Reach
National7 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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