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.

The Hurst Foundation

The Hurst Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hurst Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$695k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.0MPhilanthropy$843kCommunity Improvement$625kArts & Culture$518kHuman Services$331kRecreation & Sports$254kReligion$186kHousing & Shelter$154kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $134k
$10k–50k9 grants · $186k
$50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$5,250

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ENTERPRISE GROUP	$15,000
COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES	$15,000
MY PLACE	$15,000
ST GEORGE FOUNDATION FOR THE CLASSI	$12,500
HOT AIR JUBILEE	$10,000
YPOP EXPLORERS	$9,600
EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION	$8,750
JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$8,750

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$3.5M · 70 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+31%

Still filing today

44%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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

LR
LEAN ROCKET LAB
7× · 2018–2024 · $410k · revenue ×13 · 35% of their budget
TS
THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +864%
JY
Jackson YMCA Inc
3× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +9%

Funded once

Y
YMCA
one grant, 2020 · $60k
AC
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NURSE-MIDWIVES
one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +1%
RA
RISE ABOVE
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -15%

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.

Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Public Safety & Disaster

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement

Business Leaders for Michigan

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The Enterprise Group of Jackson Inc

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…

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Johnson University

Johnson university is a private, coeducational institution of higher learning offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

Education

Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan Inc

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…

International

Jackson Symphony Association

The Jackson Symphony enriches and inspires audiences through the power of live orchestral music.

Arts & Culture

Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association

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.

Arts & Culture

Historical Society of Michigan

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,…

Arts & Culture

Jackson Area Manufacturers Association

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.

Human Services

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disability Connections Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/48

Grantees still filing

35/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,633,696Philanthropy$859,861Community Improvement$450,450Education$353,600Arts & Culture$216,050Human Services$180,950Public Benefit$53,600

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

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 Alvin L Glick FoundationMI44.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home