Kansas · Private foundation
The Curry Family Foundation
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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Curry Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $410k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $312k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $398k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $407k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $413k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $450k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $421k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $449k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Parks Elementary School | $290,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kansas City Symphony | $220,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kansas City Community Gardens Inc | $180,000 | 9 | 2% |
| aSTEAM VILLAGE INC | $140,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jackson County Casa | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Youth Ambassadors Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The Children's Place Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Rabbit Hole Kc | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kanbe's Markets | $110,000 | 7 | 5% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($389k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Curry Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation
How this is measured
About The Curry Family Foundation
- How much does The Curry Family Foundation give?
- The Curry Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Curry Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (17%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are The Curry Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gordon Parks Elementary School ($290k), Kansas City Symphony ($220k), Kansas City Community Gardens Inc ($180k).
- Does The Curry Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Curry Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Curry Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is The Curry Family Foundation based?
- The Curry Family Foundation is based in KS.
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