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Hursey Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$634k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$261k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.1MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$275kHuman Services$86kScience & Tech$55kAnimals$45kHealth$21kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+2 grants · $511k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGES TO HOPE$261,000
HOLY FAMILY RETREAT CENTER$250,000
AMY'S ANGELS$75,000
UMASS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$30,000
HOUSE OF BREAD$10,300
ARCHBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL$5,000
REAL LIFE CATHOLIC$1,000
MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
ST THOMAS APOSTLE SCHOOL & CHURCH$500
HOSPITAL FO SPECIAL CARE$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MERCY CHEFS: $300 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
MO
VA
AZ
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 11 repeat orgs$424k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$4.2M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+32%

Still filing today

27%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesScience & TechReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY RETREAT CENTER
    5× · 2020–2026 · $1.1M
  • BT
    BRIDGES TO HOPE
    6× · 2020–2026 · $748k

Funded once

  • DH
    DILLON HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $308k
  • PI
    PEOPLE4TOMORROW INC
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • ST
    SAINT THOMAS & ST TIMOTHY PARISH CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
2
Hartford HealthCare at Home Inc

The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…

Health
3
Midstate Medical Center

The mission of Midstate Medical Center is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
4
Saint Mary Home Incorporated

We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.

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5
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
6
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
7
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation

Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…

Housing & Shelter
9
Hebrew Home & Hospital

The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…

Health
10
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…

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11
The Mercy Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…

Health
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Bread Inc; the most unlike its peers is Real Life Catholic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY FAMILY RETREAT CENTER: $1,105,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY RETREAT CENTERBRIDGES TO HOPE: $748,000 · OtherBRIDGES TO HOPEDILLON HIGH SCHOOL: $308,000 · OtherDILLON HIGH SCHOOLAMY'S ANGELS: $161,000 · OtherAMY'S ANGELSTHE HARTFORD BISHOPS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherTHE HARTFORD BISHOPS FOUNDATION+14 more: $259,199 · Other+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1,705,713 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $55,250 · Science & TechThe American Catholic Publishing Company: $5,000 · Arts & CultureReal Life Catholic: $1,000 · ReligionMERCY CHEFS INC: $300 · Human ServicesHospital For Special Care: $200 · Health
Other$2,731,199Education$1,705,713Philanthropy$150,000Science & Tech$55,250Arts & Culture$5,000Religion$1,000Human Services$300Health$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1,705,713 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $55,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $21,175 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD INC: $15,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Catholic Publishing Company ↗
  • Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Real Life Catholic ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hursey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hursey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • My Sisters' Place Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement Inc: 13% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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