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The Curry Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$410k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$924kArts & Culture$623kCrime & Legal$453kYouth Development$374kFood & Nutrition$365kHuman Services$328kHealth$186kInternational$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$45,000
WELCOME HOUSE$25,000
THE RABBIT HOLE$25,000
LEAD TO READ KC$25,000
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS$25,000
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$25,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$25,000
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC$25,000
KANBES MARKETS$20,000
ASTEAM VILLAGE INC$20,000
THE MISSION PROJECT$20,000
PAWSPERITY$20,000
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER$20,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL$20,000
ST ANDREWS EPICOPAL CHURCH$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $15k → 16%THE MISSION PROJECT: $20k → 5%Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc: $10k → 16%THE MISSION PROJECT: $10k → 5%THE MISSION PROJECT: $10k → 5%The Mission Project: $10k → 5%Safe Home: $13k → 5%LEAD TO READ KC: $25k → 15%LEAD TO READ KC: $15k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $20k → 15%Camp Encourage: $10k → 15%Whatsoever Community Center: $10k → 15%Whatsoever Community Center: $10k → 15%United Inner City Services: $25k → 15%United Inner City Services: $25k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $20k → 15%United Inner City Services: $15k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $15k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $15k → 15%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 48 repeat orgs$404k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

$3.3M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+41%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GP
    GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +13%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +18%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PF
    PAWSPERITY FKA EPEC-EMPOWERING THE PARENT TO EMPOWER THE CHILD
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +47%
  • N
    NOURISHKCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +141%
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
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
3
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
4
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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5
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
6
Refuge Kc Inc

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

Religion
7
Great Jobs Kc Inc

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.

Education
8
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
10
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
11
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
12
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 92 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
56/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $220,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMBASSADORS INCTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KCKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF…BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $63,000 · Arts & CultureBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INCHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $84,100 · Arts & Culture+9 moreKansas City Junior Board: $151,200 · OtherKansas City Junior BoardLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $70,000 · OtherEPEC - EMPOWERING THE PARENT TO EMPOWER THE CHILD: $65,000 · OtherSt Teresa's Academy: $55,000 · OtherURBAN RANGER CORPS: $60,000 · OtherRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $55,000 · OtherKANBE'S MARKETS: $110,000 · OtherKANBE'S MARKETSJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $120,000 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY CASAKC MOTHERS IN CHARGE: $53,390 · OtherFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $50,000 · Other+37 more: $578,500 · Other+37 moreGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $290,000 · EducationGORDON PARKS ELEMENT…aSTEAM VILLAGE INC: $140,000 · EducationaSTEAM VILLAGE INCOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $135,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROU…WONDERSCOPE INC: $40,000 · EducationWONDERSCOPE INCELEVATE METRO KC: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $59,000 · Education+6 moreUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE MISSION PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWhatsoever Community Center In: $20,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCamp Encourage: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $110,000 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $90,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalWelcome House Inc: $95,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $80,000 · HealthCARITAS CLINICS INC: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $180,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$732,100Other$1,368,090Education$689,000Human Services$292,500Crime & Legal$280,000Health$191,000Environment$180,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $290,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $220,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $180,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetaSTEAM VILLAGE INC: $140,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $120,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $115,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $110,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $90,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $80,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $70,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $63,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetURBAN RANGER CORPS: $60,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetKC MOTHERS IN CHARGE: $53,390 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTHE MISSION PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTING FOR GOOD: $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRESTART INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetELEVATE METRO KC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWhatsoever Community Center In: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOLDEN SCOOP LLC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEWING LABS: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
  • 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 CONNECTING FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTART INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE METRO KC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City C…Oppenstein Brothers F…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…The Francis Family Fo…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Health Forward Founda…William T Kemper Foun…The Sherman Family Fo…R a Long Foundation 6…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Sunderland Founda…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO93× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 92 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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