The Mark Hughes Foundation
Marina Del Rey, CA · EIN 95-4487544. Reported 106 grants totalling $2,790,000 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Mark Hughes Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play Equity Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Skirball Cultural Center | Los Angeles, CA | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wende Museum of the Cold War | Culver City, CA | $175,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Place Called Home | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Las Familias Del Pueblo | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Westside Food Bank | Santa Monica, CA | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood | Los Angeles, CA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| College Track | Los Angeles, CA | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Police Academy Magnet School Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA of Los Angeles | Monterey Park, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cayton Children's Museum (sharewell) | Santa Monica, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northridge Hospital Foundation | Northridge, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Venice | Venice, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Inner City Arts | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| La Family Housing | North Hollywood, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| P F Bresee Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mar Vista Family Center | Culver City, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| California Science Center Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Child Development Institute | Reseda, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy | Pasadena, CA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Get Lit - Words Ignite | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ladylike Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minds Matter of Los Angeles Inc | Porter Ranch, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Upward Bound House | Santa Monica, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Angel City Alliance (angel City Sports) | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Hospital Medical Center Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Diy Girls | Pacoima, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Educating Students Together | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jovenes Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Los Angles Free Clinic Dba Saban Community Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation | Manhattan Beach, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union Station Homeless Services | Pasadena, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unusual Suspects Theater Company | Pasadena, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Venice Family Clinic | Venice, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artcenter College of Design | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Century Villages at Cabrillo | Long Beach, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Para Los Ninos | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| School on Wheels | Ventura, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Whole Child | Whittier, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Common Threads | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ps Science | Inglewood, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Strive Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Alliance of Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eea Chapter 40 San Fernando Valley | Pacoima, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation California | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Foundation | Torrance, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Monica Education Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics Southern California | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Student Lunch Box Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 55 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Loyola Marymount University
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM - Skirball Cultural Center
PUBLIC SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS - La Family Housing
FAMILY SERVICES AND YOUTH ENRICHMENT - Boys & Girls Club of Venice
ON-SITE REMOTE LEARNING FACILITIES - Child Development Institute
AT RISK BABIES AT CEDARS IN TARZANA - Angel City Alliance (angel City Sports)
SPORTS PROGRAMS FOR DISABLED
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 75 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | $765,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $680,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $750,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $595,000 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Mark Hughes Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 9399, Marina Del Rey, CA, 90295. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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