· Private foundation
Hurston Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREHM FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ZEBRIN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SPIRAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIV | $20,000 |
| ACLU | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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%- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MAYFIELD KYone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Zebrin Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DERRY 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hurston Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hurston Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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