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Howard A Kurz Family Foundation at a glance

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Howard A Kurz Family Foundation

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.

$3k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$78kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$10kReligion$7kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%JCC OF STATEN ISLAND: $1k → 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%WOMEN IN NEED: $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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 6 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +222% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$121k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+222%
+46%

Still filing today

33%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • BW
    BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $76k · revenue +222%
  • SW
    SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k
  • NS
    NYU SCHOOL OF LAW
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k

Funded once

  • WOMEN IN NEED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +127%
  • SO
    SEEDS OF PEACE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -55%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +65%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
8
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
9
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Fcancer

FCANCER IS dedicated to advancing health equity through early detection and prevention programs, and by providing resources to navigate, manage, and cope with cancer.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beginning With Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Play for Pink Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 · EducationBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUND: $20,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDNYU SCHOOL OF LAW: $10,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF LAWJEWISH CENTER OF THE HAMPTONS: $6,757 · OtherJEWISH CENTER OF THE HAMPTONSFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH EDUCATION: $6,000 · OtherFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH EDUCATIONSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIO…+3 more: $1,450 · OtherWOMEN IN NEED INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,000 · InternationalPLAY FOR PINK INC: $100 · Crime & Legal
Education$77,000Other$46,707Human Services$8,000International$3,000Crime & Legal$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Howard A Kurz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard A Kurz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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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    How do I get to Howard A Kurz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Howard A Kurz 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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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