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Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$65k13%
FY20249$72k22%
FY20239$72k33%
FY20229$83k11%
FY202111$66k18%
FY202011$54kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$438k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emmanuel College$57,00060%
Merrimack College$46,50040%
Northeastern University$44,00060%
Villanova University$26,00040%
Suffolk University$24,50040%
Trustees of Boston University$24,50040%
Saint Anselm College$19,50030%
Pomona College$13,00020%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$13,00020%
Baylor University$11,00020%
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All grantees of Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emmanuel College$57,00060%
Merrimack College$46,50040%
Northeastern University$44,00060%
Villanova University$26,00040%
Suffolk University$24,50040%
Trustees of Boston University$24,50040%
Saint Anselm College$19,50030%
Pomona College$13,00020%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$13,00020%
Baylor University$11,00020%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$11,00020%
Trustees of Boston College$11,00020%
Bentley University$6,50010%
McPhs University$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmmanuel College: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack College: $46,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk University: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Anselm College: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPomona College: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Polytechnic Institute: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBentley University: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcPhs University: $5,000 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 14.

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About Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T

How much does Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T give?
Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T reported 9 grants totaling $71,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Emmanuel College ($57k), Merrimack College ($47k), Northeastern University ($44k).
Does Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T based?
Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T is based in MA.

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 21 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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