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Pursley 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.

$439k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Pursley Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHealthOther
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 arriving15$422k53%
FY20239$351k67%
FY20221$25k100%
FY20213$566kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$770kCivil Rights$250kPublic Benefit$223kReligion$78kHealth$46kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
PA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clapham School$650,000321%
Turning Point USA Inc$200,00020%
Alliance Defending Freedom$200,00020%
Wheaton Bible Church$60,0002n/a
Wheaton Academy$50,00010%
Benet Academy$33,0002n/a
Headstrong Foundation$26,00020%
The Heritage Foundation$20,00020%
Breakthrough T1d$20,00020%
Focus on the Family$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Pursley Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clapham School$650,000321%
Turning Point USA Inc$200,00020%
Alliance Defending Freedom$200,00020%
Wheaton Bible Church$60,0002n/a
Wheaton Academy$50,00010%
Benet Academy$33,0002n/a
Headstrong Foundation$26,00020%
The Heritage Foundation$20,00020%
Breakthrough T1d$20,00020%
Focus on the Family$15,0001n/a
The Moody Church$12,5002n/a
True Lacrosse Foundation$10,0001n/a
American Family Association Inc$5,0001n/a
Saint Andrews Academy Inc$2,00011%
Camp Twin Lakes Inc$1,10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pursley Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClapham School: $650,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHeadstrong Foundation: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Andrews Academy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Twin Lakes Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 9.

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 Chicago Community TrustIL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Pursley Family Foundation Inc

How much does Pursley Family Foundation Inc give?
Pursley Family Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $439,271 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Pursley Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Civil Rights (18%), Public Benefit (16%).
Who are Pursley Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Clapham School ($650k), Turning Point USA Inc ($200k), Alliance Defending Freedom ($200k).
Does Pursley Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pursley Family Foundation Inc 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 Pursley Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Tyndale House Ministries, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Pursley Family Foundation Inc based?
Pursley Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 20 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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