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The Kurtz Family Foundation Inc

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.

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2024.

Education$1.1MHealth$289kInternational$160kCivil Rights$108kArts & Culture$91kEnvironment$83kCrime & Legal$69kFood & Nutrition$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $193k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$28,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD (NJ)$25,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID$25,000
MISSION TWO FIVE$25,000
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL$10,000
BERGEN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,000
NJ STATE BAR FOUNDATION$10,000
CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM REFUGEE FUND$7,500
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS$7,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
PUPSTARZ RESCUE$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $8k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $6k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $5k → 7%CHORE SERVICE: $3k → 9%THE CHORE SERVICE: $3k → 9%THE CHORE SERVICE: $2k → 9%THE CHORE SERVICE: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $3k → 7%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 60 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
39

Total granted

$1.3M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+30%

Still filing today

62%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsAnimalsOther

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

  • NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +40%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +89%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY MUSLIM LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $12k

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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
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…

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9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pupstarz Rescue Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesSenior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%58%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

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

64 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. 64 of the 108 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
51/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $725,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION — $189,000 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATIONNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL — $80,000 · EducationNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL+7 more — $60,500 · Education+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD (NJ) — $160,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD (NJ)MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON — $50,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM REFUGEE FUND — $27,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $28,000 · Other+70 more — $494,100 · Other+70 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $72,500 · InternationalMEDECINS …REMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $50,000 · InternationalREMOTE AR…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGH…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …+1 more — $2,500 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $52,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $23,600 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $28,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHORE SERVICE INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ENGLEWOOD INC — $20,000 · HealthSALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV — $8,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $7,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $6,500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $2,500 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthFRESH AIR FUND — $22,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,054,500Other$759,600International$185,000Civil Rights$102,100Human Services$63,500Health$48,000Recreation & Sports$44,500

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $725,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION — $189,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $50,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $23,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBERGEN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ENGLEWOOD INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSTER VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE & RESCUE CORPS INC — $12,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUPSTARZ RESCUE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV — $8,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHORE SERVICE INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLAT ROCK BROOK NATURE ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 3y, 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Middle Road FoundationNorthwest Connecticut…Community Foundation …Findlay Family Founda…Silver Mountain Found…Ibm International Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Middle Road Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Findlay Family Foundation · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Ibm International Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Inc 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 · 120%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
  • The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Legal Services of New Jersey Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kurtz Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kurtz Family Foundation Inc 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 108 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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