· Private foundation
James & Marie McCurdy Family Charitable
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of JAMES & MARIE MCCURDY FAMILY CHARITABLE’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $17,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,500 |
| THE WELL | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY | $8,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| ECUMENICAL LORD'S CUPBOARD | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOPEWELL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FREMONT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FREMONT BAPTIST CHURCH | $4,600 |
| SHINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +151%
- FFFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +17%
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BGBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $16k
- MUMOBILE UNITED METHODIST MISSIONARIEone grant, 2019 · $5k
- RUREMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.
Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iowa Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIDWELL RIVERSIDE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Child Evangelism Fellowship of Iowa ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAHASKA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds PAY IT FORWARD CHRISTMAS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James & Marie McCurdy Family Charitable 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 8% of income from government
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.
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