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Center for Curiosity Inc

The center of curiosity conducts and engages in transdisciplinary research into the concept of "curiosity" with the specific purpose of creating curricular tools.

$296k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$458kInternational$185kScience & Tech$100kArts & Culture$37k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $295,645 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $260,645 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IIT GANDHI NAGAR FOUNDATION$25,000
ART OMI$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AKSHAYA PATRA: $73k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $157k → 22%IIT GANDHI NAGAR FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%BHU AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%AMERICAN GEMOLOGIST ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 11%ART OMI: $20k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFIT SERVICE: $10k → 7%VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $102k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $36k → 22%IIT GANDHI NAGAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ART OMI: $10k → 11%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $42k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%IIT GANDHI NAGAR FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%ART OMI: $7k → 11%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $27k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $26k → 22%IIT GANDHI NAGAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $18k → 8%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $90k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $30k to organizations and $60k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Uk$60k · 66% · 3 people

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Region not stated$30k · 34% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$296k · 3 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$296k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $159k · revenue -2%
  • IG
    IIT Gandhinagar Foundation
    4× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue -37%
  • ART OMI INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • VI
    VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $102k · revenue -43%
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $73k · revenue +239%
  • AG
    ACCREDITED GEMOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +6%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation

The specific purposes for which the Foundation is organized are to fund and promote overall betterment of Indian Institute Of Technology,Kanpur and its students,faculty and alumni body.

Education
5
Vedanta Charitable Foundation
Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
University Foundation
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8
Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation

Asian university for women (auw) seeks to offer high quality education to young women of extraordinary talents drawn from diverse national, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. see schedule o for continuation.it is open to…

Education
9
International Foundation for Social Impact Inc

To promote education in the field of medical, engineering, management, computer software, hardware and information technology by establishing school, college, institution and education and research centre for upliftment of society, with a…

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
11
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Accredited Gemologists Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $253,128 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $159,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYIIT Gandhinagar Foundation: $100,000 · EducationIIT Gandhinagar Foundation+4 more: $46,077 · Education+4 moreVEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $102,000 · PhilanthropyVEERAYATAN INT…AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $72,500 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PA…ART OMI INC: $37,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFIT SERVICESINC: $10,000 · International
Education$558,205Philanthropy$102,000Food & Nutrition$72,500International$47,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $253,128 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $159,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $102,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIIT Gandhinagar Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $72,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetART OMI INC: $37,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFIT SERVICESINC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,077 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Curiosity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Curiosity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Center for Curiosity Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Curiosity 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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