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Kurland Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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5
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’20
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’21
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’22
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’23
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’24

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

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 2024.

Philanthropy$4.7MHealth$3.3MHuman Services$264kEducation$253kArts & Culture$208kEnvironment$200kPublic Benefit$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.0M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,717,652
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$250,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$31,000
MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INCORPORATED$20,000
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC$20,000
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE$16,000
MOTHER JONES$15,000
BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 8%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 8%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 8%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center: $10k → 8%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $31k → 10%BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 10%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 8 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$720k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+75%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +48%
  • SF
    San Francisco Playhouse
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +100%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Climate Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +75%
  • CO
    COUNTY OF MARIN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • BT
    Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -50%
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.

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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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4
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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5
Berkeley Endowment Management Company

The primary purpose of Berkeley Endowment Management Company ("BEMCO") is to allocate, invest, and manage the general endowment pool of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation ("UCBF").

Education
6
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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7
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
8
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
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Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
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Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
11
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Climate Center. 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

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 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,717,652 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,319,175 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CI…+4 more: $331,000 · Education+4 moreThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $105,000 · OtherMARIN RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF MARIN: $100,000 · OtherSan Francisco Playhouse: $103,000 · Arts & CultureEnriching Lives Through Music: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMarin Theatre Company: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $108,500 · Human ServicesBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $87,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $15,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$4,717,652Education$3,650,175Other$305,000Arts & Culture$208,000Human Services$195,500Public Benefit$15,000Civil Rights$7,000

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 budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,717,652 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,319,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $108,500 over 7y, 0.1% 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
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.

Marin Community Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …The San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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