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Pursley Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT USA$150,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$100,000
WHEATON ACADEMY$50,000
CLAPHAM SCHOOL$50,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$15,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$15,000
TRUE LACROSSE FOUNDATION$10,000
WHEATON BIBLE CHURCH$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
A MACARTHUR SOCIETY OF WP GRAD$5,171
THE MOODY CHURCH$5,000
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$5,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%TURNING POINT USA: $150k → 11%HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%CAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $1k → 13%A MACARTHUR SOCIETY OF WP GRAD: $5k → 8%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $15k → 9%CLAPMAN SCHOOL: $500k → 7%THE MOODY CHURCH: $8k → 14%AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3k → 7%SAINT ANDREWS ACADEMY: $2k → 7%TURNING POINT USA: $50k → 11%HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%WHEATON ACADEMY: $50k → 7%THE MOODY CHURCH: $5k → 14%TURNING POINT: $50k → 11%CLAPHAM SCHOOL: $100k → 7%BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10k → 14%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $100k → 11%WHEATON BIBLE CHURCH: $50k → 7%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $100k → 11%CLAPHAM SCHOOL: $50k → 7%TRUE LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%WHEATON BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 7%WHEATON YOUNG LIFFE: $4k → 7%BENET ACADEMY: $25k → 7%BENET ACADEMY: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
PA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
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Total granted

$1.2M
$50k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CLAPHAM SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +19%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +107%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
2
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy

Together, we teach and learn skills that foster the courage to discover our voices, develop old and new passions, practice balance in the pursuit of excellence, and collaborate in building vibrant,inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Education
3
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
4
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
5
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Whitefield Academy Inc

Whitefield academy is a christ-centered college preparatory school that bolsters christian families in rearing young people who go on to college and life with a passion for learning, for putting others ahead of self, and for the living and…

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8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Trillium Academy

The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…

Education
10
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
11
Westminster Academy

The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.

Education
12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLAPHAM SCHOOL: $650,000 · HealthCLAPHAM SCHOOLHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthTURNING POINT USA INC: $200,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCWHEATON BIBLE CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherWHEATON BIBLE CHURCHTURNING POINT: $50,000 · OtherTURNING POINTBENET ACADEMY: $33,000 · OtherBENET ACADEMYFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $31,171 · Other+4 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $200,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDI…WHEATON ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $2,500 · Public BenefitAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · ReligionCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $1,100 · Recreation & Sports
Health$696,000Other$389,171Civil Rights$200,000Education$82,000Public Benefit$22,500Religion$5,000Recreation & Sports$1,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetLeadership Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 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
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.

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…Tyndale House Ministr…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pursley Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pursley Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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