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The Kort Family Foundation

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.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$564kEducation$359kInternational$30kReligion$20kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF$41,771
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS$35,000
MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$18,000
CONGREGATION BET HAVERIM$10,117
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $500 → 22%THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $1k → 7%BING NURSERY SCHOOL: $6k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $825 → 11%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%SACRED HEART SCHOOLS: $35k → 9%SWIM ACROSS AMERICA: $2k → 10%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $85k → 8%PACE ACADEMY: $5k → 13%USA CYCLING FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LEADVILLE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10k → 9%BETH AM SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 19%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%OAK KNOLL SCHOOL PTO: $2k → 7%BING NURSERY SCHOOL: $6k → 8%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $127k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%SACRED HEART SCHOOLS: $20k → 9%SWIM ACROSS AMERICA: $2k → 10%PACE ACADEMY: $5k → 13%LEADVILLE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%BETH AM SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 19%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $1k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY - BING NURSERY SCHOOL: $5k → 8%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $94k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%PACE ACADEMY: $5k → 13%LEADVILLE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OAK KNOLL SCHOOL PTO: $1k → 7%BING NURSERY SCHOOL: $5k → 8%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $77k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%PACE ACADEMY: $5k → 13%LIFEMOVES: $500 → 7%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $65k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%PACE ACADEMY: $5k → 13%ONE COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN: $10k → 7%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $58k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $42k → 10%ROSS PTA: $3k → 14%THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF: $12k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%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

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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.
$970k · 12 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$970k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

42%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCrime & LegalInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +47%
  • MP
    MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +24%
  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • OC
    ONE COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY - BING NURSERY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • UC
    USA CYCLING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

7
Boston Architectural College

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

8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
12
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Brain Aneurysm 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.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAF — $560,345 · OtherTHE KORT FAMILY FOUNDATION - DAFSACRED HEART SCHOOLS — $55,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS+13 more — $75,955 · Other+13 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $155,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $98,950 · EducationMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION F…PACE ACADEMY INC — $25,072 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 · InternationalCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc — $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $1,000 · HealthTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC — $150 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$691,300Education$279,022International$20,000Philanthropy$14,000Health$1,250Youth Development$1,000Crime & Legal$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $155,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $98,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC — $25,072 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 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.

  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES
  • Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kort Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 26 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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