· Private foundation
The Hurst Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k29 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY PARKS | $75,000 |
| LEAN ROCKET LAB | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MICHIGAN EDGE | $43,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE K-12 | $30,000 |
| JACKSON YMCA | $25,000 |
| LILY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| ENTERPRISE GROUP | $15,000 |
| MY PLACE | $15,000 |
| ST GEORGE FOUNDATION FOR THE CLASSI | $12,500 |
| HOT AIR JUBILEE | $10,000 |
| YPOP EXPLORERS | $9,600 |
| JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,750 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION | $8,750 |
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 (FY18–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- LRLEAN ROCKET LAB7× · 2018–2024 · $410k · revenue ×13 · 35% of their budget
- TSTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +864%
- JYJackson YMCA Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2020 · $60k
- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF NURSE-MIDWIVESone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +1%
- RARISE ABOVEone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -15%
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.
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The enterprise group will build and sustain a vibrant, diversified econocy, thereby improving jackson's quality of life. the enterprise group's mission is to help entrepreneuers and businesses break ground in jackson county on a new…
Johnson university is a private, coeducational institution of higher learning offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
The organization is dedicated to educating students in grades k-12 across southeastern michigan about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. the programs help prepare young people…
The Jackson Symphony enriches and inspires audiences through the power of live orchestral music.
The mission of the andrew jackson foundation is to preserve the home place of andrew jackson, to create learning opportunities, and to inspire citizenship through experiencing the life and unique impact of jackson.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Jackson area manufacturers' association's mission is to accelerate the success of our region's manufacturers and workforce by providing access to world-class organizational and talent development solutions.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The jackie robinson foundation provides college and graduate school scholarships as well as leadership development opportunities for students of color with strong capabilities but limited financial resources. the foundation is distinctive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disability Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Learning Accelerator. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 117 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAN ROCKET LAB ↗
- Who funds THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
- Who funds Jackson YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds THE DAHLEM CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds St George Foundation for the Classics ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOT AIR JUBILEE ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE READING WRITING CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NURSE-MIDWIVES ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE ↗
- Who funds Pioneers Home Education Support Services ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 The Hurst Foundation 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.