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The Curran Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Curran Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
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.

Arts & Culture$277kHuman Services$245kEducation$190kFood & Nutrition$155kScience & Tech$100kCrime & Legal$80kHealth$35kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$247k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC$35,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSENANCY$35,000
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 (FY21–23, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE INC: $150k → 9%YWCA - SONOMA COUNTY: $35k → 9%OPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE INC: $15k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM: $25k → 9%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$867k · 7 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$867k
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+2%

Still filing today

86%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • GROTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    OPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $165k · revenue +77% · 61% of their budget
  • AH
    AIM HIGH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • GF
    GOOD FOR GOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +44%
  • SS
    SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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3
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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5
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
8
Sonoma Country Day School

The sonoma country day school mission is to bring learning to life through the guiding principles of engagement, relationship, integrity, creativity and contribution.

Education
9
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
Sonoma Academy

Sonoma academy calls its students to be creative, ethical and committed to learning. the school nurtures inspiring teachers and students as they prepare to become leaders in a dynamic world.

Education
12
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society; the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARTSCONNECTION INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureARTSCONNECTION INCCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESRaizes Collective: $32,000 · Arts & CultureRaizes CollectiveTRANSCENDENCE THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE I…AIM HIGH: $45,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGHTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIA…SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INCGROTON SCHOOL: $170,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLBAY SCHOLARS: $10,000 · EducationTHE PRESENTATION SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationFarm to Pantry: $130,000 · Food & NutritionFarm to PantryFARM AID INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFARM AID INCGOOD FOR GOOD FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherGOOD FOR GO…SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $35,000 · OtherSAN FRANCIS…GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $35,000 · EnvironmentSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$377,000Human Services$270,000Education$190,000Food & Nutrition$155,000Other$115,000Environment$35,000Animals$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $225,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION CHRISTMAS TREE INC: $165,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetFarm to Pantry: $130,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRaizes Collective: $32,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFARM AID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSCENDENCE THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAY SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PRESENTATION SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…Marin Community Found…Sonoma County Vintner…McNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Curran Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Curran Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 The Curran Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Curran Foundation Inc 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 18 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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