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Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation

Wilmington, DE · EIN 51-0187055. Reported 78 grants totalling $490,840 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$490,840granted, 2021-2023
42organizations funded
63%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,338,381assets, 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 $3,750 and $7,000; 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
36 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jewish Federation of DelawareWilmington, DE$78,300332023
Kutz Senior Living CampusWilmington, DE$43,000332023
Kristol Center for Jewish LifeNewark, DE$37,500332023
Siegel Jewish Community CenterWilmington, DE$31,500332023
Albert Einstein AcademyWilmington, DE$29,500332023
Jewish Family Services of DelawareWilmington, DE$20,500332023
Fresh Start Scholarship Fund IncWilmington, DE$19,000332023
FameWilmington, DE$17,000332023
St Michael's School and NurseryWilmington, DE$15,000332023
Jewish Historical SocietyWilmington, DE$14,000332023
Latin American Community CenterWilmington, DE$13,000332023
Nativity Preparatory SchoolWilmington, DE$13,000332023
StehmWilmington, DE$12,325332023
Little Sisters of the PoorNewark, DE$11,100332023
Sussex County Habitat for HumanityGeorgetown, DE$10,500332023
Serviam Girls AcademyWilmington, DE$9,000222022
Big Brothers & Big SistersWilmington, DE$7,500222022
Wilmington Children's ChorusWilmington, DE$7,350222023
Cab Calloway School FundWilmington, DE$6,000222022
Seaside Jewish CommunityRehoboth Beach, DE$6,000112021
AmanecerWilmington, DE$5,000112023
Choir School of DelawareWilmington, DE$5,000112021
Delaware FuturesWilmington, DE$5,000112022
Down Syndrome Association of DelawareNewark, DE$5,000222023
Ministry of Caring IncWilmington, DE$5,000112023
Presbyterian Church of the CovenantWilmington, DE$5,000222023
The Challenge ProgramWilmington, DE$5,000112022
West End Neighborood HouseWilmington, DE$5,000112023
Forward JourneyNewark, DE$4,800112022
Central De Habitat for HumanityDover, DE$4,000112021
Delaware College of Art & DesignWilmington, DE$4,000112021
Delaware Technical & Community CollegeDover, DE$4,000112022
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
Delaware Breast Cancer CoalitionWilmington, DE$3,000112023
La EsperanzaGeorgetown, DE$3,000112021
Certs - Adult Action CenterNewark, DE$2,625112021
Chabad at the University of DeNewark, DE$1,800112022

21 of 42 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 63%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Employment
1 grant

Giving by year

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

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
$398K
Newark, DE
$63K
Georgetown, DE
$14K
Dover, DE
$11K
Rehoboth Beach, DE
$6K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Delaware Community Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsLaffey-Mchugh Foundation20 shared recipientsWsfs Cares Foundation15 shared recipientsWelfare Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc14 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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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