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The Kurtz 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of The Kurtz Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Kurtz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $255k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k35 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER - BRENNER'S HOSPITAL | $115,500 |
| AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION | $60,500 |
| FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL WINSTON SALEM | $13,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $6,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $3,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| THE WOMEN'S FUND OF WINSTON-SALEM | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| PIEDMONT CRAFTSMEN | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
66 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2020, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
SENIOR SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +64%
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +61%
Elon University7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- USUNC SCHOOL OF ARTS - ISRAELI MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2019 · $3k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR JUDAIC HOLOCAUST & PEACE STUDIESone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
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The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 47 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 88 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 AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAWTOOTH SCHOOL FOR VISUAL ART ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
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: Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · The Arts Council Inc · Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation · Flow Foundation Inc · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · James T & Louise R Broyhilll Foundation · The Kooken Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Kurtz 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.
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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