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Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation

Wilmington, DE · EIN 51-0187055. Reported 109 grants totalling $650,810 to 55 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$650,810granted, 2021-2024
55recipients, as named on its returns
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,433,419assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $1,800 and the largest $28,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
52 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
39 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jewish Federation of DelawareWilmington, DE$93,300442024
Kutz Senior Living CampusWilmington, DE$53,000442024
Kristol Center for Jewish LifeNewark, DE$52,500442024
Siegel Jewish Community CenterWilmington, DE$41,500442024
Albert Einstein AcademyWilmington, DE$39,500442024
Jewish Family Services of DelawareWilmington, DE$28,500442024
Fresh Start Scholarship Fund IncWilmington, DE$24,000442024
Jewish Historical SocietyWilmington, DE$19,000442024
St Michael's School and NurseryWilmington, DE$18,870442024
Latin American Community CenterWilmington, DE$18,000442024
FameWilmington, DE$17,000332023
StehmWilmington, DE$14,825442024
Nativity Preparatory SchoolWilmington, DE$13,000332023
Little Sisters of the PoorNewark, DE$11,100332023
Sussex County Habitat for HumanityGeorgetown, DE$10,500332023
Wilmington Children's ChorusWilmington, DE$10,050332024
Ministry of Caring IncWilmington, DE$10,000222024
West End Neighborood HouseWilmington, DE$10,000222024
Delaware Technical & Community CollegeDover, DE$9,000222024
Serviam Girls AcademyWilmington, DE$9,000222022
Down Syndrome Association of DelawareNewark, DE$8,000332024
The Challenge ProgramWilmington, DE$7,900222024
Big Brothers & Big SistersWilmington, DE$7,500222022
Cab Calloway School FundWilmington, DE$6,000222022
Delaware Breast Cancer CoalitionWilmington, DE$6,000222024
Seaside Jewish CommunityRehoboth Beach, DE$6,000112021
AmanecerWilmington, DE$5,000112023
Calliope Project Inc (milton Theatre)Milton, DE$5,000112024
Choir School of DelawareWilmington, DE$5,000112021
Delaware FuturesWilmington, DE$5,000112022
Joshua M Freeman FoundationSelbyville, DE$5,000112024
Presbyterian Church of the CovenantWilmington, DE$5,000222023
Speak Out Against HateRehoboth Beach, DE$5,000112024
Forward JourneyNewark, DE$4,800112022
Big Brothers Big Sisters of DelawareWilimngton, DE$4,000112024
Central De Habitat for HumanityDover, DE$4,000112021
Congregation Beth ShalomWilmington, DE$4,000112024
Congretation Beth EmethWilmington, DE$4,000112024
Delaware College of Art & DesignWilmington, DE$4,000112021
Habitat for Humanity of New Castle CountyWilmington, DE$4,000112021
Literacy DelawareWilmington, DE$4,000112021
Urban PromiseWilmington, DE$4,000112021
UrbanpromiseWilmington, DE$4,000112023
Cancer CommunityWilmington, DE$3,540112022
Central Delaware Habitat for HumanityDover, DE$3,000112023
La EsperanzaGeorgetown, DE$3,000112021
Certs - Adult Action CenterNewark, DE$2,625112021
Christina Cultural Arts CenterWilmington, DE$2,500112024
Connecting GenerationsWilmington, DE$2,500112024
Covenant Community ServicesWilmington, DE$2,500112024
Edge for TomorrowWilmington, DE$2,500112024
Shoes That Fit (delaware Chapter)Newark, DE$2,500112024
Wilmington Youth Rowing AssocWilmington, DE$2,500112024
First State SquashWilmington, DE$2,000112024
Chabad at the University of DeNewark, DE$1,800112022

26 of 55 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
10 grants
Health Care
9 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Employment
1 grant
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202129$180,000$5,000
202225$159,740$5,000
202324$151,100$5,000
202431$159,970$4,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Wilmington, DE
$513K
Newark, DE
$83K
Dover, DE
$16K
Georgetown, DE
$14K
Rehoboth Beach, DE
$11K
Milton, DE
$5K
Selbyville, DE
$5K
Wilimngton, DE
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Delaware Community Foundation Inc28 shared recipientsLaffey-Mchugh Foundation23 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund20 shared recipientsWelfare Foundation Inc19 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsWsfs Cares Foundation18 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Delaware.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 101 Garden of Eden Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 51-0187055 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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