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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.

$29k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

1
’18
1
’19
9
’21
8
’22
1
’23
0
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$141kHuman Services$75kReligion$38kRecreation & Sports$16kHealth$15kEducation$3kCivil Rights$650Other$0
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SACRED HEART CHURCH$1,000
CLEVELAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION$1,000
SLAVIC FULL GOSPEL CHURCH$955
CLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION$650
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $65k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $7k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%GINN Foundation: $5k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 4 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$131k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CO
    CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +27%
  • HO
    HANDS OF FAITH CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $28k
  • CS
    COACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • HM
    Hope Meadows Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +416%
  • IK
    INDEPENDENCE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -29%
  • G
    GOFUNDMEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +26%
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
Chris Canty Foundation

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…

Youth Development
2
Chase the Victory Corporation

Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.

Human Services
3
Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ Inc

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…

Youth Development
4
The Independent Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
5
Randy Walker Legacy Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Character Coaching Inc

Character Coaching Inc. exists to help people develop a God-centered foundation that shapes their choices priorities and values.

Religion
7
Impact Campus Ministries

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…

Education
8
Relife Initiatives Corporation

Youth mentoring through a group of programs designed to build and restore self confidence and empowerment toward self discovery and identity establishment.

Education
9
The Faith Foundation
—
10
Kick for Christ Inc

Teach sports as Christ would.

International
11
The Champions Fund Inc

Our mission is to simplify charitable giving amoung pro athletes and sport related charities for the benefit of their communities.

Philanthropy
12
Cog Research Foundation Llc

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)…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone of Hope Inc; 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.
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 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MELVIN R KURTZ DONOR ADVISED FUND: $50,000 · OtherMELVIN R KURTZ DONOR ADVISED FUNDHANDS OF FAITH CHURCH: $27,770 · OtherHANDS OF FAITH CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNERSTONE CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherCORNERSTONE CHURCHHope Meadows Foundation: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $3,555 · OtherTHE FUND FOR CHARITABLE GIVING: $72,672 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR CHARITABLE GIVINGCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $17,000 · PhilanthropyCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATI…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INCGINN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesGINN FOUNDATIONFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,945 · Youth DevelopmentAWAKENING ANGELS: $10,000 · HealthINDEPENDENCE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION: $1,000 · EducationCLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION INC: $650 · Civil Rights
Other$112,825Philanthropy$90,672Human Services$80,000Youth Development$10,945Health$10,000Education$3,000Civil Rights$650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,945 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGINN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHope Meadows Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GINN ACADEMY CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION INC: $650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Go Foundation Fka Mel R Kurtz Family Foundation 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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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