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Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$629kHuman Services$367kReligion$255kFood & Nutrition$253kEmployment$205kArts & Culture$153kHousing & Shelter$91kRecreation & Sports$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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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Its 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 its 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%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $8k → 5%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE INC: $10k → 17%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $25k → 10%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
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

—
12
Homeward Bound Inc

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independence First Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
38/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $15,000 · HealthBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBalance Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT: $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEISENHOWER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 budgetWISCONSIBS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FIRST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 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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