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Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Fund For Charitable Giving, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $29k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| COACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| HANDS OF FAITH CHURCH | $3,131 |
| CORNERSTONE OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SLAVIC FULL GOSPEL CHURCH | $955 |
| CLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION | $650 |
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 (FY21–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- COCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +27%
- HOHANDS OF FAITH CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $28k
- CSCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- HMHope Meadows Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +416%
- IKINDEPENDENCE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -29%
- GGOFUNDMEORGgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +26%
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 Chris Canty Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the total development of youth in our communities. Our goal is to utilize the platform of sports to affect positive change in the lives of children through mentoring, educational…
Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.
Youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and…
Inspiring and enabling americans and their trusted advisors to create, preserve and pass on their philanthropic legacy through donor advised fund solutions where the impact is truly remarkable and the experience is fun, resulting in…
The Randy Walker Legacy Foundation was established to recognize and support organizations and causes that connect with the beliefs and values of the Randy Walker family and to continue the legacy of Coach Randy Walker, who spent his career…
Character Coaching Inc. exists to help people develop a God-centered foundation that shapes their choices priorities and values.
To plant campus ministries to encourage students to accept jesus christ as lord and savior, to connect college students with god and establish them in christ's church, and to work in teams to pursue, model, and teach intimacy with god…
Youth mentoring through a group of programs designed to build and restore self confidence and empowerment toward self discovery and identity establishment.
Teach sports as Christ would.
Our mission is to simplify charitable giving amoung pro athletes and sport related charities for the benefit of their communities.
Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone of Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ginn Academy Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR CHARITABLE GIVING ↗
- Who funds COACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds AWAKENING ANGELS ↗
- Who funds GINN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Meadows Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE YOUTH FOOTBALL INC ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family 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.
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