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Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of HICKORY FUND INC CO CURI CAPITAL LLC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$50,000
KANDU INDUSTRIES$40,000
ST FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER$25,000
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCON$25,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$20,000
COVEY INC$20,000
FISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES INC$17,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP$15,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$15,000
MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON-HILTON HEA$15,000
HOPEFUL HORIZONS$10,000
HEROES ON HORSEBACK$10,000
LIFE NAVIGATORS$7,500
THE FIRST TEE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY$7,500
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $11k → 16%BALANCE: $15k → 6%WISCONSIBS INC: $5k → 7%OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $25k → 10%NOURISH UP: $25k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%LOAVES FISHES FRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $25k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 10%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $15k → 5%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $25k → 10%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $8k → 5%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE INC: $10k → 17%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $6k → 5%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE INC: $10k → 17%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $20k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $25k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $15k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 28 repeat orgs$826k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
30

Total granted

$1.3M
$696k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+46%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEmploymentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +11%
  • LIFE NAVIGATORS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +90%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SO
    SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • BV
    BEYOND VISION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
2
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
3
Highline Corporation

To assist people with disabilities in achieving their personal goals for independence.

Human Services
4
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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5
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services
6
Portal Inc

To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…

Employment
7
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
8
Lakeshore Community Services Inc

The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…

Human Services
9
Aptiv Inc

The mission of aptiv, incorporated is to provide a spectrum of innovative support for individuals with disabilities so they may live independent lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services
11
Work Community Independence Inc

Wci's mission is to empower and support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and acquired brain injury to achieve rich and meaningful lives at home, at work and in their communities.

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12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independence First Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pockets Full of Sunshine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMuseums, History & Nature C…Professional & Industry Ass…Food Pantries and Meal Prog…Independent Schools and Ear…Senior Housing and CareDisability Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/51
the rest of the field
13%
3,515/27,371

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
38/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI — $250,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISILOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $130,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCLIFE NAVIGATORS INC — $122,500 · OtherLIFE NAVIGATORS INCDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCON — $75,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION — $65,900 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONBEYOND VISION INC — $40,000 · Other+29 more — $472,400 · Other+29 morePENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $75,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDRE…EISENHOWER CENTER INC — $65,000 · HealthEISENHOWER CENTE…WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $60,000 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY …ASCEND SERVICES INC — $35,000 · HealthASCEND SERVICES …COVEY INC — $20,000 · HealthCOVEY INCVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $15,000 · HealthBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · HealthAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $15,000 · HealthPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $55,000 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXC…HEAR Wisconsin Inc — $55,000 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin I…Nourish Up — $50,000 · Human ServicesNourish UpADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC — $28,500 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE COMMUNI…OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGINC — $25,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS FOR INDE…SECOND HELPINGS — $20,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $20,000 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FO…Balance Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $10,500 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $103,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $85,000 · EmploymentKANDU INDUSTRIES INC — $40,000 · EmploymentPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE — $5,000 · EmploymentST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 · EducationLA CAUSA INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $30,700 · Philanthropy
Other$1,155,800Health$315,000Human Services$304,000Arts & Culture$153,000Employment$130,000Education$55,000Philanthropy$30,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC — $122,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $103,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEISENHOWER CENTER INC — $65,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $55,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNourish Up — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND VISION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASCEND SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES INC — $32,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $30,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC — $28,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGINC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOVEY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLA CAUSA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEROES ON HORSEBACK — $17,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBalance Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEISENHOWER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC OF BEAVER DAM — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIBS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA WISCONSIN LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHREE GAITS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Green Bay Packers Fou…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncOtto Bremer TrustWispact IncYouth Foundation IncFrancie Luke Silverma…Anon Charitable Trust
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI49.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Wispact Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Anon Charitable Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC?

    Find your warmest path to Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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