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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE | $25,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $25,000 |
| THE RABBIT HOLE | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS | $25,000 |
| YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC | $25,000 |
| LEAD TO READ KC | $25,000 |
| KANBES MARKETS | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL | $20,000 |
| PAWSPERITY | $20,000 |
| THE MISSION PROJECT | $20,000 |
| ASTEAM VILLAGE INC | $20,000 |
| CHILD PROTECTION CENTER | $20,000 |
| RECONCILIATION SERVICES | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- GPGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +13%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +18%
- KCKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +47%
- NNOURISHKCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +141%
- PFPAWSPERITY FKA EPEC-EMPOWERING THE PARENT TO EMPOWER THE CHILDone grant, 2023 · $20k
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 mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Traditional Music Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 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. 74 of the 92 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 GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds aSTEAM VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KC MOTHERS IN CHARGE ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE METRO KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE 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: 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
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 The Curry Family Foundation 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.
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.