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Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T at a glance

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Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$6,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northeastern University$13,000
Emmanuel College$13,000
College of the Holy Cross$6,500
Merrimack College$6,500
Pomona College$6,500
Bentley University$6,500
Brandeis University$6,500
St Anselm College$6,500
North Carolina Central University$6,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $6k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $14k → 10%College of the Holy Cross: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-A: $20k → 12%Emmanuel College: $13k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%Pomona College: $7k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%University of Rhode Island: $7k → 7%St Anselm College: $7k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $13k → 10%College of the Holy Cross: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $7k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $13k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%Pomona College: $7k → 14%North Carolina Central University: $7k → 11%University of Rhode Island: $6k → 7%ST ANSELM COLLEGE: $7k → 7%Brandeis University: $7k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $13k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $6k → 11%University of Massachusetts - Amherst: $7k → 12%Northeastern University: $13k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%ST ANSELM COLLEGE: $7k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%Merrimack College: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-A: $6k → 12%Emmanuel College: $13k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL: $7k → 8%Northeastern University: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL: $6k → 8%Emmanuel College: $7k → 16%Bentley University: $7k → 8%Northeastern University: $7k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%Emmanuel College: $6k → 16%Northeastern University: $6k → 16%Boston University: $7k → 16%Boston University: $7k → 16%Suffolk University: $7k → 16%Suffolk University: $7k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$396k · 17 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$396k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +22%
  • MERRIMACK COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +17%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • MU
    MCPHS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • SS
    SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $57,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGEMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $46,500 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGENORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $44,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $24,500 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $19,500 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGEPOMONA COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $13,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $11,000 · Education+2 more: $11,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-A: $31,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHE…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $24,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITYUniversity of Rhode Island: $18,000 · OtherUniversity of Rhode IslandUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $13,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHE…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL: $13,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELLWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $11,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE+1 more: $4,000 · Other
Education$303,500Other$134,000

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

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 budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $26,500 over 4y, 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
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 EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curry & Downey Scholarship Trust Charitable T. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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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