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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $25,000 |
| CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| AMERICARES | $20,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| TEC CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $15,000 |
| JERUSALEM PEACE BUILDERS | $15,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $13,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $12,500 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $12,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +46%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +98%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- CSClimate Science Legal Sefenseone grant, 2018 · $10k
- A(Americares (Puerto Rico)one grant, 2017 · $10k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - STEWARDSHIP PLEDGEone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Frederick a Simeone Md Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 152 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Cheshire Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds DZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SUZANNE WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kurtz Family Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridge House Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.