· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICES | $29,185 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES | $29,185 |
| LCBC | $26,000 |
| VIBRANT CHURCH | $26,000 |
| CROSSNET MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE MENNONITE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PETRA CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- VCVIBRANT CHURCH6× · 2019–2024 · $83k
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY BIBLE CHURCH4× · 2019–2024 · $78k
- NHNEW HOLLAND EARLY LEARNING CENTER4× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EDELANCO DOVE CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORSone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…
Christ Cathedral Ministries is a church that provides a place of worship fellowship and training for people in the Christian faith. This ministry seeks to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill the great commission and the…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
The organization's main purpose is to minister to children at a youth center by building relationship between the volunteer staff and youth. to provide a positive environment where the youth can meet jesus christ. to study the bible and…
Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.
The crispus attucks association of york, pennsylvania is a comprehensive non-profit entity that provides education services, human services, community development and affordable housing that enhances the quality of life for a diverse…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
A ministry that seeks to partnership with parents to nuture and educate young children in the lord. it is to be a place and program that will provide teachers,lessons, and even play activities that bring jesus christ into the lives of…
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
Tiny Hearts of Hope is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children in South East Asia by bringing hope to those who need hope. We bring necessities such as food, bedding, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is New Holland Early Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 NEW HOLLAND EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR ONE LIFE ↗
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.
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
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 Marlin Hurst Charitable Trust 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.