Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$972k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$16MScience & Tech$7.1MHealth$5.8MEnvironment$173kPhilanthropy$150kInternational$100kRecreation & Sports$25kAnimals$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+21 grants · $10M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$113M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$972,439
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$972,439
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$944,116
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$944,116
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$917,891
UC SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$900,407
Individual grant recipient$625,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$498,030
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$256,131
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$256,131
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$250,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA$250,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA$250,000
CALFIORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$250,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%BERKLEY LAB FOUNDATION: $322k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $424k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $944k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $268k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $972k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $458k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $972k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $944k → 9%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $249k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $248k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $890k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $458k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $249k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $890k → 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $432k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $234k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $432k → 9%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $248k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $256k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $218k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $256k → 9%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $248k → 10%CALFIORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $224k → 14%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $223k → 14%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $918k → 10%INNOVATIVE GENOMICS INITIATIVE: $625k → 10%INNOVATIVE GENOMICS INITIATIVE: $625k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $865k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $420k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $250k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 17 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$23M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

35%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +18%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $533k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $458k
  • University of San Francisco
    one grant, 2023 · $424k · revenue -4%
  • BL
    BERKELEY LAB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $322k · revenue +238%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
7
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Unlocking the secrets of life itself is the driving force behind the salk institute. our team of world-class, award-winning scientists pushes boundaries of knowledge in areas such as neuroscience, cancer research, aging, immunobiology,…

Science & Tech
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
California Association for Research in Astronomy

To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Innovative Genomics Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Community Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 56 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%54%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,949

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA — $3,809,779 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $2,592,891 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — $2,522,167 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $2,522,167 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — $1,783,230 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYCarnegie Mellon University — $1,711,176 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $1,430,748 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHIndividual grant recipient — $1,250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $835,196 · Other+15 more — $1,785,907 · Other+15 moreCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $2,718,246 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,698,400 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…UCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $972,439 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $900,407 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FR…University of San Francisco — $424,360 · EducationBERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION — $322,000 · Education+3 more — $160,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $533,046 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $200,000 · Science & TechSCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 · Science & TechINNOVATIVE GENOMICS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Science & TechNEW VENTURE FUND — $150,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $12,500 · EnvironmentRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · InternationalCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Animals
Other$20,243,261Education$8,195,852Health$583,046Science & Tech$300,000Environment$177,500International$100,000Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $2,718,246 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $1,711,176 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,698,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $972,439 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $900,407 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $533,046 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $424,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $395,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION — $322,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIVE GENOMICS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINLE PLANTING HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shurl and Kay Curci 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Shurl and Kay Curci 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines