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Curefa Foundation Inc

Curefa foundation funds capital intensive projects gated with success milestones, leveraging novel tools of scientific research for the treatment and cure of friedreich's ataxia.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
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.

Health$15M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $85,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,283 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,283 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.
$85,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE$85,000
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FA 212 LLC: $3.0M → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $50k → 7%AGILIS BIOTHERAPEUTICS 245 FIRST ST: $1.0M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $97k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $120k → 18%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $1.6M → 6%PENNSYLVANIA ORPHAN DISEASE CENTER: $860k → 22%EKSO BIONICS INC: $171k → 9%ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $10k → 11%AGILIS BIOTHERAPEUTICS 245 FIRST ST: $350k → 8%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $1.2M → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $597k → 22%EKSO BIONICS INC: $21k → 9%BROAD INSTITUTE: $310k → 8%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $1.1M → 6%PENNSYLVANIA ORPHAN DISEASE CENTER: $460k → 22%EKSO BIONICS INC: $11k → 9%BROAD INSTITUTE: $226k → 8%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $925k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150k → 22%BROAD INSTITUTE: $214k → 8%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $821k → 6%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $533k → 6%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $178k → 6%FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $85k → 6%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 5 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$10M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+56%

Still filing today

40%
60%

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
HealthEducationOther
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

  • FA
    FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +74%
  • AB
    AGILIS BIOTHERAPEUTICS 245 FIRST ST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.4M
  • PO
    PENNSYLVANIA ORPHAN DISEASE CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M

Funded once

  • F2
    FA 212 LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2019 · $97k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $6,464,121 · HealthFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCEThe Broad Institute Inc: $750,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc+1 more: $10,000 · HealthFA 212 LLC: $3,000,000 · OtherFA 212 LLCAGILIS BIOTHERAPEUTICS 245 FIRST ST: $1,350,000 · OtherAGILIS BIOTHERAPEUTICS 245 FIRST STPENNSYLVANIA ORPHAN DISEASE CENTER: $1,319,635 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA ORPHAN DISEASE CENTEREKSO BIONICS INC: $202,130 · Other+1 more: $96,960 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,254,750 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY O…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $746,817 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …University of Notre Dame du Lac: $119,546 · EducationUniversity of No…+1 more: $50,000 · Education
Health$7,224,121Other$5,968,725Education$2,171,113

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $6,464,121 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,254,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $746,817 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $119,546 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Curefa Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curefa Foundation 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of 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 · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Curefa Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Curefa Foundation 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 12 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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