Michigan · Private foundation
The Hurst Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $695k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Hurst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $695k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $578k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $622k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $428k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $493k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $624k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $481k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lean Rocket Lab | $410,000 | 7 | 35% |
| The Shop Rat Foundation Inc | $305,200 | 6 | 17% |
| County of Jackson Michigan Dept on Aging | $158,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Jackson School of the Arts Assoc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jackson YMCA Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Jackson Friendly Home | $56,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Dahlem Conservancy | $43,250 | 3 | 5% |
| St George Foundation for the Classics | $42,350 | 3 | 8% |
| Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc | $41,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Hot Air Jubilee | $40,000 | 6 | 66% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hurst Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Addison P Cook III Foundation · Louis Glick Memorial & Charitable Trust · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Macchia Family Foundation · Melling Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hurst Foundation
- How much does The Hurst Foundation give?
- The Hurst Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $694,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Hurst Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Philanthropy (18%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are The Hurst Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Lean Rocket Lab ($410k), The Shop Rat Foundation Inc ($305k), County of Jackson Michigan Dept on Aging ($159k).
- Does The Hurst Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hurst Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hurst Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alvin L Glick Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Lavery Foundation.
- Where is The Hurst Foundation based?
- The Hurst Foundation is based in MI.
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