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Kurtzman Family Foundation

The foundation's giving is irected to the jewish community and the community at large to benefit programs and nstitutions which have an emphasis on arts and culture, education and social services.

$158k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$114k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,155
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Kurtzman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving6$99k33%
FY20236$96k17%
FY20227$126k29%
FY20214$104k0%
FY20205$152k60%
FY20195$98k20%
FY20186$73k67%
FY20176$161kn/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.

Religion$430kHealth$286kEducation$104kHuman Services$102kPhilanthropy$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$10kCrime & Legal$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
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$419,8758n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$115,60050%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$60,00050%
Our House Grief Support Center$52,00050%
Phase One Foundation$40,25051%
Regents of the University of Michigan$40,0002n/a
Southwestern Law School$33,00030%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles$25,00010%
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc$25,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$10,50010%
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All grantees of Kurtzman Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$419,8758n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$115,60050%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$60,00050%
Our House Grief Support Center$52,00050%
Phase One Foundation$40,25051%
Regents of the University of Michigan$40,0002n/a
Southwestern Law School$33,00030%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles$25,00010%
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc$25,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$10,50010%
Share Our Strength$10,00010%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$10,0001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00010%
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles$10,00010%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation$10,0001n/a
Alliance for Children's Rights$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
FireWorks Foundation Inc$10,00016%
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc$7,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $115,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOur House Grief Support Center: $52,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPhase One Foundation: $40,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSouthwestern Law School: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKarsh Family Social Service Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFireWorks Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 15.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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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Find your warmest path to Kurtzman 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 Kurtzman Family Foundation

How much does Kurtzman Family Foundation give?
Kurtzman Family Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $113,905, out of $157,905 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kurtzman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Health (28%), Education (10%).
Who are Kurtzman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($420k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($116k), Saint John's Health Center Foundation ($60k).
Does Kurtzman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kurtzman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Kurtzman Family Foundation based?
Kurtzman 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 22 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.

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