Connecticut · Private foundation
Kurtz Family Foundation Trust
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.
- $562k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Kurtz Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 82 | $560k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $414k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $365k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $327k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $311k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $275k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $223k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $191k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $213,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Center for Family Justice Inc | $132,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $127,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Climate Science Legal Defense Fund | $100,000 | 7 | 4% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cheshire Health Foundation | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $63,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $53,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($845k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kurtz Family Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hoffman Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Fernwood Foundation · National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Sherlock Charitable Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Monadnock United Way Inc · The Kingsbury Fund · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kurtz Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Kurtz Family Foundation Trust give?
- Kurtz Family Foundation Trust reported 83 grants totaling $562,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kurtz Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), International (17%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Kurtz Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc ($213k), The Center for Family Justice Inc ($132k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($127k).
- Does Kurtz Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kurtz Family Foundation Trust 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 Kurtz Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hoffman Family Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Kurtz Family Foundation Trust based?
- Kurtz Family Foundation Trust is based in CT.
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