· Private foundation
The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $258k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC | $10,000 |
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ONEIDA | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC | $10,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| B SINARDO | $5,000 |
| THE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| THREE-G VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $5,000 |
| N LINN | $5,000 |
| A WILLIAMS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RCRESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC6× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +7%
- HOHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD6× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +73%
- CACENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSone grant, 2019 · $35k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $25k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +20%
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Sdei Shoshanim Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 197 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 RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FEED OUR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds HELIO HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds LOWVILLE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AND WOMEN'S COMMUNITY CENTER OF ROME N ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Central New York Ronald McDonald House ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR OKLAHOMA CITY CHAPTER ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley 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 The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.
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