How much does Curci Fund give?

Curci Fund reported 51 grants totaling $1,007,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Curci Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Philanthropy (21%), Religion (13%).

Who are Curci Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Eisenhower Medical Center ($1.0M), Hoag Hospital Foundation ($960k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast ($440k).

Does Curci Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Curci Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Curci Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation, Argyros Family Foundation.

Curci Fund

Curci Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Curci Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.4MReligion$933kYouth Development$455kEducation$422kFood & Nutrition$396kHuman Services$245kEnvironment$172kOther$0

02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $87k
$10k–50k26 grants · $370k
$50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$250,000
ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL	$100,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION	$100,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$50,000
LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION	$50,000
SERGERSTROM CENTER OF THE ARTS	$45,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST	$25,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$25,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$25,000
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION	$25,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
HOPE BUILDERS	$15,000
FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA	$10,000
VALLEY CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY	$10,000
CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF LA	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$5.3M · 54 repeat orgs$592k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+28%

Still filing today

54%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

EM
Eisenhower Medical Center
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +77%
HH
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2024 · $960k · revenue +237%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST
5× · 2018–2024 · $440k · revenue +75%

Funded once

TS
TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -7%
SC
Segerstrom Center for the Artsgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +34%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +74%

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.

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health

Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education

Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hope in Motion International. 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

58 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. 58 of the 116 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/58

Grantees still filing

40/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,695,700Health$2,080,500Philanthropy$1,330,500Food & Nutrition$305,600Education$210,500Human Services$195,000Housing & Shelter$145,000

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

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA48× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · 2003 Eagle Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Janet Curci Family Foundation · Connelly Family Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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 Curci Fund?

Find your warmest path to Curci Fund 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home