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Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund
Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,666 to it, the largest being EXCELSIOR FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Illinois Action for Childrenlocal
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio match
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Illinois Action for ChildrenlocalIL · funds 237 organizations near you
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Esperanza de Nuestra Comunidadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cacique Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyatt Ranches Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bohnert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperity Denver Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund?
- Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,666 to it, the largest being EXCELSIOR FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $207,666 in grants to Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund.
- Who is the largest funder of Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund?
- EXCELSIOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charles E Curry Foundation and Educational Scholarship Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing