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Saul & Gitta Kurlat Charitable Foundation C/O Aimee Kowalker

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of SAUL & GITTA KURLAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O AIMEE KOWALKER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$166,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2LIFE COMMUNITITES$1,000,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL$333,333
Individual grant recipient$333,333
HOPE AND COMFORT$166,667
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$166,667
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$166,667
HOPE AND COMFORT$166,667
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METRO WEST$100,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$33,333
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$33,333
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$33,333
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $837k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF THE FALMOUTH SENIOR CENTER: $25 → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $167k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $60 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METRO WEST: $100k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METRO WEST: $100k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METRO WEST: $25k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $167k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $167k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $50k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $20k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $10k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 47 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
24

Total granted

$6.1M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther

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

  • 2C
    2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +992%
  • HA
    HOPE AND COMFORT INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $419k · revenue ×13
  • HS
    Hebrew Senior Life Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $344k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MB
    MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +3%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (MATTHEW KULKE)
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winchester Home & Garden Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr13%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr20%9%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr13%39%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
11%
5,662/52,214

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,726,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATED — $759,167 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $368,358 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient — $245,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASSACHUSETTS CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION INC — $213,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION INCJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $195,267 · Other+42 more — $302,246 · Other+42 more2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $1,035,500 · Housing & Shelter2LIFE COMMUNITIES …HOPE AND COMFORT INC — $419,334 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFOR…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY S…COVENANT HOUSE — $192,667 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE+5 more — $375 · Human ServicesHebrew Senior Life Inc — $343,934 · PhilanthropyBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $76,701 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $50,100 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $7,000 · Health+6 more — $678 · HealthMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $125,000 · Science & TechNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $700 · Education
Other$3,810,205Housing & Shelter$1,035,500Human Services$837,376Philanthropy$343,934Health$134,479Science & Tech$125,000Education$30,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $1,035,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $419,334 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $343,934 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $225,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION INC — $213,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $195,267 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $192,667 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $76,701 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $50,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $105 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $85 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $85 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $80 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $80 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FALMOUTH SENIOR CENTER INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncHighland Street Conne…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Saul & Gitta Kurlat Charitable Foundation C/O Aimee Kowalker 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to Saul & Gitta Kurlat Charitable Foundation C/O Aimee Kowalker?

Find your warmest path to Saul & Gitta Kurlat Charitable Foundation C/O Aimee Kowalker 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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