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The Hurford Foundation Jayne M Kurzman

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.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$200kEnvironment$70kCommunity Improvement$60kArts & Culture$30kPhilanthropy$15kSocial Science$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY$100,000
FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION$75,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$50,000
THE ROCKFELLER UNIVERSITY$40,000
EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE$15,000
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES$10,000
ONE TO WORLD$10,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$5,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION: $175k → 17%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $50k → 9%EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES: $20k → 17%FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $50k → 9%EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES: $15k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $300k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $50k → 9%EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $280k → 14%EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%ONE TO WORLD: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $225k → 14%EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%ONE TO WORLD: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $125k → 14%ONE TO WORLD: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $100k → 14%ONE TO WORLD: $10k → 17%WORLD MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $75k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $20k → 14%COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT INT'L: $79k → 14%COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT INT'L PEACE: $79k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $50k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $50k → 14%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $50k → 14%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%FREEDOM HOUSE: $50k → 14%THE ROCKFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%DAG HAMMARSKJOLD FUND: $15k → 17%THE ROCKFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%DAG HAMMARSKJOLD FUND: $15k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%DAG HAMMARSKJOLD FUND: $15k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $10k → 17%TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES: $15k → 17%EAST WEST INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$358k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$3.0M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-4%

Still filing today

90%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationSocial ScienceOther
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

  • NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +223%
  • FP
    FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $859k · revenue +22%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -80%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    one grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $79k
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
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
2
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
5
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute

The ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute is the sole nonprofit organization created by president reagan charged with advancing his legacy and principles: individual liberty, economic opportunity, freedom and democracy, peace…

Education
8
Meridian International Center

Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…

International
9
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
10
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
11
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Transportation Alternatives Inc. 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

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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $859,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INCFREEDOM HOUSE: $300,000 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSECOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $250,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $150,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $79,000 · International+2 more: $60,000 · InternationalNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $1,050,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACYINSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES INC: $100,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FO…Individual grant recipient: $79,000 · OtherIndividual g…WORLD MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $75,000 · OtherWORLD MOVEME…TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $60,000 · OtherTRANSPORTATI…DAG HAMMARSKJOLD FUND: $45,000 · OtherDAG HAMMARSK…+1 more: $10,000 · OtherTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Social Science
International$1,698,000Public Benefit$1,050,000Other$369,000Education$200,000Environment$70,000Social Science$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $1,050,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $859,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $79,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetONE TO WORLD INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Hurford Foundation Jayne M Kurzman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hurford Foundation Jayne M Kurzman. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Hurford Foundation Jayne M Kurzman through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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