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CURA FOUNDATION

CURA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,041,618 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($3,250,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$274k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$6.0M
Net assets
$192k
8/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Cura Foundation does

Mission

Cura Foundation (f/k/a stem for life foundation) is creating a movement to accelerate development of cell therapies and prevention tools which hold considerable promise to improve human health, increase quality of life, and enhance patient care. The Cura Foundation and its llcs are firmly committed to advancing cell therapy research and development throughout the world in order to accelerate cures and reduce human suffering.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation raises global awareness about disease prevention and cell therapy treatment and fosters a collaborative dialogue between scientists, regulatory agencies, ministers of health, patient advocates, physicians, ethicists, philanthropists, leaders of faith, government officials and industry personnel. The foundation also educates our next generation of thought leaders about the rapid innovation in cell therapy technology and the importance to interface with data to improve clinical outcomes and optimize health care spending. Its management, board and collaborators look for ways to speed clinical development and utilize big data and algorithmic learning to advance personalized medicines, so that patients can receive the best possible treatment for their individual diseases as quickly as possible, rationalizing healthcare dollar spent while improving clinical outcomes.

    $635,183 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $635,183.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($663k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 322 ($7.2M) Expenses 847 ($5.6M) Net assets 185 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 81 ($1.8M) Expenses 189 ($1.3M) Net assets 201 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 445 ($10.0M) Expenses 282 ($1.9M) Net assets 665 ($12M)2021 Revenue 38 ($858k) Expenses 626 ($4.2M) Net assets 487 ($8.5M)2022 Revenue 7 ($146k) Expenses 268 ($1.8M) Net assets 58 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 14 ($321k) Expenses 145 ($963k) Net assets 21 ($370k)2024 Revenue 12 ($274k) Expenses 63 ($420k) Net assets 11 ($192k)
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Revenue (12)Expenses (63)Net assets (11)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.6M to $12M (+227%).

$1.8M
$3.3M
$3.6M
$12M
$8.8M
$1.4M
$501k
$208k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CURA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’17
$1.6M
’18
$557k
’19
$8.1M
’20
−$3.3M
’21
−$1.6M
’22
−$642k
’23
−$147k
’24
2.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed44444443
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $525k → $121k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CURA FOUNDATION’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

CURA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CURA FOUNDATION.

54%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 60% · 2019 83% · 2020 54% · 2021 37% · 2022 70% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

13% of CURA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

CURA FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.

MN
MI
NY
SD
PA
NJ
CA
DC
OK
GA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CURA FOUNDATION's revenue fell 88% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−54% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−26% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CURA FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 30%Fundraising 14%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 37 states

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Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Stoq LLC · disregarded
  • Cognitive Warriors LLC · disregarded
  • STEM for Life Foundation Canada LLC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CURA FOUNDATION: 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 CURA FOUNDATION?
CURA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,041,618 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($3,250,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CURA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $6,041,618 in grants to CURA FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CURA FOUNDATION?
SANFORD GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $3,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CURA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing