· Public charity
Hurst Wood Education Foundation
To transform, through education, the lives of children with autism and the lives of their families.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCENICVIEW ACADEMY INC | $600,000 |
| SPECTRUM ACADEMY | $415,000 |
| THE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES DBA ROOT FOR KIDS | $400,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| PETERSBURG BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $166,500 |
| ST GEORGE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY SC DIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FREEDOM KITS OF YAKIMA | $28,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- SAScenicView Academy3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +96%
- SASpectrum Academy2× · 2023–2024 · $737k · revenue +14%
- UAUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY3× · 2019–2021 · $692k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TRTHE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -33%
- IHIHC HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +53%
- MHMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -83%
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.
Public charter school educating Utah students.
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
Terra academy focuses on each student as a "unique" whole person in a global society by providing individualized instruction in a community learning model through educational experiences including a broad range of curricular options and…
A Utah public charter school supported by state and federal funding.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.
Inspire the rising generation to reach the heights of their potential, ignite their curiosity to venture into challenging new learning experiences, and through service, empower them to be leaders who are committed to family and community…
To manage and operate a Utah public charter school funded by local, state and federal sources.
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
Kindergarten through 12th grade charter school in the State of Utah.
To prepare promising students for meaningful lives as principled leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Women and Children in Crisis and the most unlike its peers is The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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 ScenicView Academy ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Academy ↗
- Who funds UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St George Academy ↗
- Who funds THE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds Freedom Kits of Yakima ↗
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.
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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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hurst Wood Education Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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