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The Currie Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Currie Fund

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2018
3
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$905k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$1.8MHealth$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kPublic Benefit$10kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$6kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$905,022
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURRIE FAMILY FUND$905,022
THORNTON & TUCKER FAMILY FUND$905,022
UTOPIA PARKS BOARD$3,500
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER: $3k → 16%WILLS EYE CLINIC: $5k → 22%A21 CAMPAIGN: $2k → 10%THORNTON & TUCKER FAMILY FUND: $905k → 17%OUTDOOR ASSOC FOR TEXAS HEROES INC: $8k → 8%GIRLSTART: $5k → 10%COOK CHILDREN'S URGENT CARE & PEDIATRIC SPECIALTIES: $2k → 11%VANDERPOOL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5k → 12%UTMB INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: $5k → 14%MOTHER'S AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS: $2k → 14%CROSS TRAIL OUTFITTERS OF TX: $1k → 16%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%ROCKPORT FULTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2k → 17%ROSE UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $1k → 12%CITY OF GRAPEVINE - FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 11%UTOPIA VOLUNTEER EMS: $5k → 12%THE 1894 GRAND OPERA HOUSE: $1k → 14%CURRIE FAMILY FUND: $905k → 16%BAYLOR REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AT GRAPEVINE: $2k → 11%UTOPIA PARKS BOARD: $4k → 12%UTMB-SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: $5k → 14%COMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS: $2k → 16%GRAPEVINE ANIMAL SERVICES: $2k → 11%UTOPIA PARKS BOARD: $4k → 12%ROSENBERG LIBRARY: $1k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY: $15k → 16%GRAPEVINE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%STARK DIABETES CENTER UTMB: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 16%GRAPEVINE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 11%GRAPEVINE - COLLEYVILLE ISD COUNCIL OF PTA'S: $1k → 11%MANNA RELIEF: $3k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY AREA FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%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 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
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
2
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
4
Baylor Medical Center at Irving

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
6
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
7
Scott & White Memorial Hospital

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The A21 Campaign Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vanderpool Volunteer Fire Department. 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THORNTON & TUCKER FAMILY FUND: $905,022 · OtherTHORNTON & TUCKER FAMILY FUNDCURRIE FAMILY FUND: $905,022 · OtherCURRIE FAMILY FUND+20 more: $68,600 · OtherUTOPIA PARK BOARD: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsGIRLSTART: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOUTDOOR ASSOCIATION FOR TRUE HEROES INC: $7,500 · Public BenefitCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC: $2,000 · Public BenefitVanderpool Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · HealthMANNA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Food & NutritionColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,878,644Recreation & Sports$12,500Public Benefit$9,500Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetOUTDOOR ASSOCIATION FOR TRUE HEROES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUTOPIA PARK BOARD: $7,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetVanderpool Volunteer Fire Department: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGIRLSTART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 OUTDOOR ASSOCIATION FOR TRUE HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds UTOPIA PARK BOARD ↗
  • Who funds Vanderpool Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds MANNA RELIEF MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 30 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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