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The Kurtz Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS TOGETHER | $15,000 |
| HOUSE OF CHAMPIONS | $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 (FY17–23, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2026, 44 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +156%
- TDTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +13%
- CRCLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE INC4× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +196% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHOMAS AND CAROLINE KURTZ FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SPST PETER THE ROCK MEDIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +96%
- RIROOTED IN FAITH FORWARD IN HOPE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Catholic charities, a ministry of the catholic diocese of albany, is committed to active witness on behalf of the scriptural values of mercy and justice. catholic charities, recognizing human need at all stages of life, responds to all…
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
To carry out the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing comprehensive primary medical and health care, recognizing the religious conscience protections of the individuals providing and receiving such care, focused on the health and…
To improve the health status of the people we serve.
Provide complete and caring pregnancy services (without prejudice to religion, age, race, gender, marital status or income level) through its women's centers and prenatal care facility, as well as provide marriage enrichment, healthy…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Thomas and Caroline Kurtz Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 123 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 CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AND CAROLINE KURTZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Village at Marymount ↗
- Who funds ST PETER THE ROCK MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGES OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds I'M IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · Thomas and Caroline Kurtz Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · Gregory and Lyn Kurtz Foundation · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Luciano Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · The Swagelok Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 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 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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