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John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research

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.

$76k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202310$76k0%
FY202211$83k18%
FY202113$113k38%
FY202010$107k70%
FY20193$71k67%
FY20181$83k0%
FY20171$73kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$489kEducation$98kCivil Rights$15kYouth Development$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Luther College$36,50040%
The Alliance Francaisefrench House of Chicago$27,50050%
Vandercook College of Music$25,00030%
Arthaus Inc$23,00043%
Occidental College$21,00040%
THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen$15,000316%
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College$14,00020%
Palm Coast Arts Foundation Inc$12,5001n/a
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School$10,0002n/a
Clopton Alumni Association Inc$6,000112%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLuther College: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance Francaisefrench House of Chicago: $27,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVandercook College of Music: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetArthaus Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetOccidental College: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen: $15,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLincoln University Aka Lincoln College: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClopton Alumni Association Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research

How much does John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research give?
John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research reported 10 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (16%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Luther College ($37k), The Alliance Francaisefrench House of Chicago ($28k), Vandercook College of Music ($25k).
Does John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research based?
John Kurtich Foundation for Study and Research is based in CA.

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 17 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 (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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