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Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,350
Largest grant, FY2024
$89,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$29k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$112k78%
FY20235$37k60%
FY20221$6k0%
FY20217$70k71%
FY20209$68k33%
FY20196$103k50%
FY201815$190k60%
FY201716$78kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$276kHousing & Shelter$206kHealth$204kCivil Rights$26kYouth Development$19kPublic Benefit$15kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
UT
CO
VA
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DC
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Thru Soap Inc$158,80056%
Usher 2020 Foundation Inc$100,000122%
Ali Forney Center Inc$40,00030%
Glaad Inc$26,01320%
Be Someone Inc Be Someone Inc$16,000220%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$10,67610%
Because I Said I Would$10,00011%
Cure Childhood Cancer Inc$10,00010%
Patriot Project$10,0002n/a
Movember Foundation$8,19850%
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Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope Thru Soap Inc: $158,800 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetUsher 2020 Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAli Forney Center Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGlaad Inc: $26,013 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBe Someone Inc Be Someone Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc: $10,676 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBecause I Said I Would: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMovember Foundation: $8,198 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Music Project Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPartnership Against Domestic Violence Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Strength: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIntown Collaborative Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetState Democracy Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSongs for Kids Foundation Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Middle Georgia Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnsley Park Civic Association Inc: $1,070 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTriangle Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMoving in the Spirit Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Nutrition Research Center: $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Orange County: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc: $267 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · The Dorfman Foundation Inc · Bobbie Bailey Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc

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.

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About Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation

How much does Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation give?
Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $111,976 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Health (26%).
Who are Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope Thru Soap Inc ($159k), Usher 2020 Foundation Inc ($100k), Ali Forney Center Inc ($40k).
Does Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation based?
Curran - Dorfman Family Foundation is based in GA.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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