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The Kurz Family Foundation Ltd

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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

92% of The Kurz Family Foundation Ltd’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Kurz Family Foundation Ltd named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

44
’19
5
’20
5
’21
0
’22
2
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$18MEducation$1.4MInternational$535kArts & Culture$150kCrime & Legal$125kCivil Rights$113kFood & Nutrition$85kHuman Services$69kOther$0
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS GIFT DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,800,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$1,050,000
ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC$300,000
THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
THE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION$200,000
ROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$20,000
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER$5,000
NANUET PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
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 (FY19–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ON THE RISE INC: $280 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 8%KITKA INC: $18k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 10%JCC ROCKLAND INC: $7k → 14%NYACK CENTER: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANCE INC: $125k → 14%THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-PURPOSE CTR: $6k → 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

VT
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 2 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
47

Total granted

$2.1M
$803k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $752k · revenue +30%
  • AA
    ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $525k · revenue +8%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2019–2021 · $240k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +43%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -1%

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 Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
10
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
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is The Leslie St Fang Foundation. 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 backsteadyPublic Library SupportFood Pantries & AssistanceLand Conservation Organizat…Developmental Disabilities …Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community Arts OrganizationsJewish Community FederationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Classical Music EnsemblesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Government Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Muslim Community Organizati…Public University Foundatio…
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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr17%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%80%20–35yr15%11%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,106

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

54 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. 54 of the 67 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $15,125,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+2 more — $424,000 · PhilanthropyMS GIFT DONOR ADVISED FUND — $1,800,000 · OtherMS GIFT DON…THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $70,000 · Other+24 more — $181,550 · Other+24 moreTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $752,000 · EducationNew York University — $240,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $100,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $92,500 · EducationROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $52,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $54,000 · EducationARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $525,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN FUND INC — $20,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesKITKA INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesNYACK CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesJCC ROCKLAND INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $6,682 · Human ServicesTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC — $6,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,280 · Human ServicesROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFOREST CREATURES FOUNDATION LTD — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFred Dolan Art Academy Foundation — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $100,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$16,649,000Other$2,051,550Education$1,415,500International$545,000Human Services$178,462Arts & Culture$147,000Civil Rights$111,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $15,125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $752,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $525,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTHE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetNew York University — $240,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $92,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $52,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $30,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CEN TER — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNYACK CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFred Dolan Art Academy Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSPOONFULS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD START OF ROCKLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJCC ROCKLAND INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $6,682 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE VOICES INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Arts West — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIERMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CITY FREE LIBRARY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKLAND NEGRO SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,200 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVALLEY COTTAGE LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUFFERN FREE LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALISADES FREE LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAPPAN FREE LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetON THE RISE INC — $280 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.

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.

The Chazen FoundationThe Rockland Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Verizon FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundTides FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Chazen FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chazen Foundation · The Rockland Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Kurz Family Foundation Ltd 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Kurz Family Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to The Kurz Family Foundation Ltd 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 67 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines