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Van Curler 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| D JAMES KENNEDY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| STUDENT STATESMANSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| TEENPACT LEADERSHIP SCHOOLS INC | $10,000 |
| CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST CARE FAMILY RESOURCES INC | $10,000 |
| WORTHY CREATIONS MINISTRY INC | $5,000 |
| FAITH 2 ACTION MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LIBERTY COUNSEL INC | $5,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH OF AVON | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $5,000 |
| THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| KOOME MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- CRCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +50%
- SSStudent Statesmanship Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +11%
- SRSECURITY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CFCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIPone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FBFAITH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Biblical worldview advancement
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Produce and publish events and speaking engagements to bring a Christian perspective to our Nation. Social Awareness in the light of Faith
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…
To evangelize, eqip, and empower god's church in the u.s. and around the world.
Faith and Law's mission is to encourage and equip Christian policymakers to more fully understand the Biblical worldview and its implication in their calling to the public square.
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Religion
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Good Faith Medias mission is to amplify freedom, inclusivity, and justice for people and partners utilizing multiple media platforms as a catalyst to produce and publish thoughtful, engaging and inspiring content.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarion Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Black Pro Life Congress. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds Student Statesmanship Institute ↗
- Who funds SECURITY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds First Care Family Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KOOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds D JAMES KENNEDY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK PRO LIFE CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds TEENPACT LEADERSHIP SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Moms for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE 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: Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Van Curler 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.
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