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Hurst Wood Education Foundation

To transform, through education, the lives of children with autism and the lives of their families.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHealth$1.5MPhilanthropy$150kHuman Services$30k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$300,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WASHINGTON COUNTY SC DIS FOUNDATION$50,000
ST GEORGE ACADEMY$50,000
FREEDOM KITS OF YAKIMA$28,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SPECTRUM ACADEMY: $415k → 6%UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $325k → 8%THE REFUGE UTAH: $30k → 8%THE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES DBA ROOT FOR KIDS: $400k → 10%FREEDOM KITS OF YAKIMA: $28k → 17%PETERSBURG BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $167k → 7%MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%SPECTRUM ACADEMY: $322k → 6%UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $316k → 8%THE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%THE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES DBA ROOT FOR KIDS: $150k → 10%UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $51k → 8%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $300k → 8%THE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES DBA ROOT FOR KIDS: $100k → 10%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $150k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY SC DIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%ST GEORGE ACADEMY: $50k → 10%SCENICVIEW ACADEMY INC: $600k → 8%ST GEORGE ACADEMY: $50k → 10%SCENICVIEW ACADEMY INC: $400k → 8%ST GEORGE ACADEMY: $50k → 10%SCENICVIEW ACADEMY INC: $250k → 8%UTAH REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 8%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 6 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$4.0M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    ScenicView Academy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +129%
  • SA
    Spectrum Academy
    2× · 2023–2024 · $737k · revenue +14%
  • UA
    UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $692k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -33%
  • IH
    IHC HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +53%
  • MH
    MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -83%
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
The Ranches Academy Incorporated

Public charter school educating Utah students.

Education
2
Timpanogos Academy Foundation

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…

Education
3
Utah Arts Academy

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'…

Education
4
Terra Academy

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…

Education
5
Utah County Academy of Sciences

A Utah public charter school supported by state and federal funding.

Education
6
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
7
Salt Lake Arts Academy

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.

Education
8
Venture Academy

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…

Education
9
Summit Academy Incorporated

To manage and operate a Utah public charter school funded by local, state and federal sources.

Education
10
Lakeview Academy of Science Arts and Technology

To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.

Education
11
The Freedom Academy Foundation

Kindergarten through 12th grade charter school in the State of Utah.

Education
12
Leadership Academy of Utah

To prepare promising students for meaningful lives as principled leaders.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Women and Children in Crisis; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ScenicView Academy: $1,250,000 · EducationScenicView AcademySpectrum Academy: $737,000 · EducationSpectrum AcademyUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $691,973 · EducationUTAH AUTISM ACADEMYUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 · EducationUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCSt George Academy: $150,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $650,000 · HealthTHE LEARNING CENTER …IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 · HealthIHC HEALTH SERVICES …MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $28,000 · HealthRAE C STEDMAN ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $166,500 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,378,973Health$848,000Other$216,500Philanthropy$150,000

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 budgetScenicView Academy: $1,250,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetSpectrum Academy: $737,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $691,973 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $650,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSt George Academy: $150,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE RAY AND TYE NOORDA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIHC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

The Vivint Giveback F…The Ashton Family Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vivint Giveback FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vivint Giveback Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · 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 Hurst Wood Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hurst Wood Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hurst Wood Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hurst Wood Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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