· Private foundation
The Kurtz Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of The Kurtz Family Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 21 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| THE WOMEN'S FUND OF WINSTON-SALEM | $1,500 |
| SENIOR SERVICES | $1,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $64k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2020, 32 since wound down; 7 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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +61%
SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +64%
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
- RREADWSone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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.
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…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
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.
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,…
The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
The american association of immunologists (aai) is an international association representing professionally trained scientists who conduct basic and clinical research on the biology of the immune system. aai is dedicated to advancing the…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES 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 ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Humane Society ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SAWTOOTH SCHOOL FOR VISUAL ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kurtz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kurtz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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