· Private foundation
Hurston Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $30,950 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $20,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVEL | $10,150 |
| CROSSING LIFE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP | $10,000 |
| FRYEBURG ACADEMY FUND | $10,000 |
| ZEBRIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS'HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| VVA CHAPTER 566 | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DERRY | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGE UNLIMITED AT IRONSTONE | $5,000 |
| KICK KARATE INC | $5,000 |
| SERVING STARS INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
LAZARUS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +14%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +145%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- TPTHE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDone grant, 2021 · $20k
LANDMARK SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +47%- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +61%
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.
As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Lahey clinic, inc. (lci) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care, leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's…
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The center owns and operates a 141 bed skilled nursing facility that provides inpatient long-term care and recuperative services for its patients.
Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served. as a network its purpose is to create healthier communities…
The primary mission of joslin diabetes center (jdc) and joslin clinic (jc) is to provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to engage in research focused on advancing…
The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic, inc. (lci) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey clinic, lahey clinic peabody and lahey clinic outpatient rehabilitation services at danvers…
The primary mission of joslin diabetes center (jdc) and joslin clinic (jc) is to provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to engage in research focused on advancing…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital - needham, inc. (bidn or hospital) is to improve the health of the communities it serves by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient…
The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoops for Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DERRY INC ↗
- Who funds Zebrin Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BREHM PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOOPS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
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 Hurston Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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