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The Michael G Curran Family Foundation at a glance

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The Michael G Curran 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.

$755k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$752k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$4.8MEducation$81kYouth Development$9kHealth$8kCommunity Improvement$6kHuman Services$5kCrime & Legal$1kReligion$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $250k+1 grant · $752k
$1,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER$752,296
CARY CHAMBER HONOR A TEACHER$1,250
DUKE HEALTH$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PICKLE FOR PETS: $65 → 14%WEST POINT: $1k → 14%RICE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%SAFECHILD: $1k → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE: $3k → 10%DUKE HEALTH: $1k → 11%GARNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%WHEATON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%CASEY CARES: $8k → 6%MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL: $103 → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE: $2k → 10%CASEY CARES: $148 → 6%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUND: $500 → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE: $1k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $5k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $980k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $752k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $752k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $752k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $675k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $573k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $536k → 8%TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $524k → 8%CARY ACADEMY: $16k → 8%CARY ACADEMY: $16k → 8%CARY ACADEMY: $15k → 8%CARY ACADEMY: $15k → 8%CARY ACADEMY: $10k → 8%CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 8%CARY CHAMBER HONOR A TEACHER: $1k → 8%CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 8%CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 8%YOUNG LIFE: $2k → 8%CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 8%YOUNG LIFE: $750 → 8%CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 8%YOUNG LIFE: $250 → 8%LEUKEMIA SOCIETY: $250 → 8%YOUNG LIFE: $200 → 8%HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +20% 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
13

Total granted

$5.6M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +76%
  • CARY ACADEMY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +37%
  • CC
    CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • SAFECHILDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +139%
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
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
5
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
8
William Peace University

William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Wake County Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $5,544,172 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTERCARY ACADEMY: $72,000 · Education+5 more: $7,000 · EducationCARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,635 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE: $5,000 · OtherCARY CHAMBER HONOR A TEACHER: $1,250 · OtherDUKE HEALTH: $1,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $1,303 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,648 · Arts & CultureSAFECHILD: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Recreation & Sports$5,544,172Education$79,000Other$16,188Youth Development$8,500Arts & Culture$7,648Crime & Legal$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER: $5,544,172 over 8y, 17% of budgetCARY ACADEMY: $72,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,648 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,635 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFECHILD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TRIANGLE AQUATIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michael G Curran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael G Curran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Michael G Curran Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Michael G Curran Family Foundation 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 23 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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