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Curchin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$33kEducation$15kHuman Services$14kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$11kHealth$4kCrime & Legal$4kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$119k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOPLIN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO$2,500
PRO MUSICA$1,500
FOUNDATION 66$1,500
ST AUGUSTINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTAIN ACADEMY$1,000
SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,000
ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
CHILDRENS HAVEN$500
THE OLD ART BUILDING$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $250 → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$84k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+34%

Still filing today

60%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PM
    PRO MUSICA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +7%
  • NH
    NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +85%
  • F6
    Foundation 66 Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • WW
    WOMEN WITH A MISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
2
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture

The josephy center for arts and culture (jcac) is a gathering place to celebrate, promote and inspire arts and culture for all wallowa county residents and visitors. jcac exists to: enrich and elevate the lives of residents and visitors by…

Arts & Culture
3
Janesville Performing Arts Center Inc

The janesville performing arts center will serve as the primary performing arts and cultural resource center for the greater janesville area and accommodate a diverse mix of performances by non-profit user groups to enhance the quality of…

Arts & Culture
4
Center for Contemporary Arts

The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.

Arts & Culture
5
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
6
Cultural Corner Art Guild and Gallery

The mission of the organization is to educate, encourage and inspire the community in the development of art by providing a dynamic and supportive venue for exhibits, programs to bring artists together, and workshops and instruction which…

Arts & Culture
7
Owatonna Arts Center

To enhance knowledge awareness and participation in the visual arts in the community

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8
Capital City Casa

It is the mission of the capital city casa to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children with the 19th judicial circuit of missouri, based on the belief that all children are entitled to a safe and permanent home. the…

Crime & Legal
9
Kirksville Arts Association

The Kirksville Arts Association endeavors to partner and serve in promoting a vigorous economic and cultural arena in which to foster the arts for Northeast Missouri rural communities.

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10
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
11
Arts Council of Southern Indiana

To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.

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12
Lawrence Arts Center Inc

The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Self Help Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation 66 Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRO MUSICA: $13,500 · OtherPRO MUSICAMERCY FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATIONST AUGUSTINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4,250 · OtherST AUGUSTINE EPISCOPAL CHURCHMERCY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONJOPLIN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $2,500 · OtherST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherWOMEN WITH A MISSION: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $7,350 · Other+11 moreConnect2Culture: $15,500 · Arts & CultureConnect2CultureGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,250 · Arts & CultureGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER …OLD ART BUILDING: $1,250 · Arts & CultureOLD ART BUILDINGNEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $11,250 · EducationNEW HEIGHTS CHRIS…CAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES: $3,250 · EducationCAPITAL CITY AREA…Foundation 66 Inc: $9,400 · PhilanthropyFoundation …JASPER COUNTY CASA: $3,500 · Crime & LegalSHOES FROM THE HEART: $250 · Human Services
Other$47,100Arts & Culture$19,000Education$14,500Philanthropy$9,400Crime & Legal$3,500Human Services$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConnect2Culture: $15,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPRO MUSICA: $13,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $11,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation 66 Inc: $9,400 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOLD ART BUILDING: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES FROM THE HEART: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
  • Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Foundation 66 Inc ↗
  • Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds OLD ART BUILDING ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOES FROM THE HEART ↗

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.

Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable TrustWI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Arvest Foundation · The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Curchin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curchin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Curchin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Curchin Family Foundation 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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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