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Hurst Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,522,677 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,696,959 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $174,282 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
- $250k+3 grants · $889k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yale University | $380,712 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $258,333 |
| The Aspen Institute | $250,000 |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $200,000 |
| Meridian International Center | $75,000 |
| Theatre Aspen | $65,000 |
| The Aspen Institute | $50,000 |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | $40,000 |
| United States Olympic & Paralympic Fdn | $25,000 |
| Georgetown University | $25,000 |
| Aspen Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | $16,666 |
| Meridian International Center | $15,000 |
| Colorado Rocky Mountain School | $10,000 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety | $10,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ASASPEN SANTA FE BALLET2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +23% · 43% of their budget
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART2× · 2023–2024 · $908k · revenue +90%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $360k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Rocky Mountainsone grant, 2023 · $110k
- GSGoldman Sachs Philanthropy Fdone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AFACUMEN FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Aspen center for physics is a scientific organization which promotes organized research in physics, astrophysics, and related fields through programs of individual and collaborative research, workshops, and conferences, as well as promotes…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rome Chamber Music Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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