· Private foundation
Herbert & Katherine Kurth Religious Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $10,000 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| ORG FOR BLACK MARITIME GRADUATES | $10,000 |
| EASTERSEALS KINDCARE | $10,000 |
| CHARITY WATER | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| GREEN AMERICA | $10,000 |
| WATER FOR PEOPLE | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GREEN AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +23%- WFWATER FOR PEOPLE8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +42%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HFHabitat for Humanity Internationalone grant, 2018 · $10k
- EOEASTERSEALS OF SE WISCONSINone grant, 2020 · $10k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
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.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Water 1st's mission is to enable the world's poorest people to implement and sustain community-managed projects integrating clean water supply, sanitation and hygiene education. water 1st unites people to fight the global water and…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE PRASAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herbert & Katherine Kurth Religious Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert & Katherine Kurth Religious Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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