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Kurland Family Foundation

Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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98% of Kurland Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Marin Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
5
’18
5
’19
6
’20
9
’21
7
’22
6
’23
5
’24

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

Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,717,652
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Kurland Family Foundation 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 & CultureCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$81k20%
FY20236$181k0%
FY20227$191k14%
FY20219$251k33%
FY20206$80k17%
FY20195$75k40%
FY20185$44k20%
FY20174$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.7MHealth$3.3MHuman Services$264kEducation$253kArts & Culture$208kEnvironment$200kPublic Benefit$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin Horizon School Inc$120,00060%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$105,00070%
San Francisco Playhouse$103,00080%
The Climate Center$100,00015%
Marin Resource Conservation District$100,0002n/a
The George Washington University$100,00050%
County of Marin$100,0001n/a
Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center$87,00070%
Enriching Lives Through Music$85,00052%
Marin Theatre Company$20,00020%
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All grantees of Kurland Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin Horizon School Inc$120,00060%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$105,00070%
San Francisco Playhouse$103,00080%
The Climate Center$100,00015%
Marin Resource Conservation District$100,0002n/a
The George Washington University$100,00050%
County of Marin$100,0001n/a
Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center$87,00070%
Enriching Lives Through Music$85,00052%
Marin Theatre Company$20,00020%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$15,00010%
Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation$11,00011%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$7,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kurland Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarin Horizon School Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $103,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe Climate Center: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe George Washington University: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center: $87,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $85,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to Kurland Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kurland 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.

About Kurland Family Foundation

How much does Kurland Family Foundation give?
Kurland Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $3,945,461 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kurland Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Health (36%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Kurland Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marin Horizon School Inc ($120k), The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ($105k), San Francisco Playhouse ($103k).
Does Kurland Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kurland Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Kurland Family Foundation based?
Kurland Family Foundation 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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