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Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust

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.

$161k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$29,185
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$161k67%
FY20234$60k25%
FY20224$62k0%
FY20218$50k50%
FY20203$8k67%
FY20195$30k80%
FY20181$400n/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$260kEducation$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kEmployment$10kHousing & Shelter$6kHuman Services$4kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster County Bible Church$78,0004n/a
New Holland Early Learning Center$40,00041%
Petra Church$33,9005n/a
Mennonite Disaster Service$29,1851n/a
Christian Aid Ministries$29,18510%
Crossnet Ministries$20,00011%
Lighthouse Vocational Services$10,00010%
Water Street Ministries$6,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$50010%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster County Bible Church$78,0004n/a
New Holland Early Learning Center$40,00041%
Petra Church$33,9005n/a
Mennonite Disaster Service$29,1851n/a
Christian Aid Ministries$29,18510%
Crossnet Ministries$20,00011%
Lighthouse Vocational Services$10,00010%
Water Street Ministries$6,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$50010%
For One Life$40010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Holland Early Learning Center: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $29,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossnet Ministries: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLighthouse Vocational Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWater Street Ministries: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFor One Life: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Eden Bridge FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eden Bridge Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust

How much does Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust give?
Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $161,370 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Education (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
Who are Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Lancaster County Bible Church ($78k), New Holland Early Learning Center ($40k), Petra Church ($34k).
Does Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eden Bridge Foundation, Anabaptist Foundation, Shady Maple Foundation.
Where is Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust based?
Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 18 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-PF 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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