Michigan · Nonprofit
CURE DEFENSE FUND
CURE DEFENSE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Cure Defense Fund does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Engage in ongoing extraordinary defense strategies to promote the credit union movement, in both legal and legislative arenas as well as conduct various issue advocacy activities to promote and advance common interests of the credit union movement.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $5.5M to $4.2M (−23%).
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.
33% of CURE DEFENSE FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Patricia Corkery
Executive director
Board chair
Heather Luciani
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CURE DEFENSE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CURE DEFENSE FUND's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Against its field
CURE DEFENSE FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CURE DEFENSE FUND
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Michigan Credit Union League · exempt
- Cu Solutions Group Incorporated · corp_trust
- Michigan Credit Union League Service Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CURE DEFENSE 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 CURE DEFENSE FUND?
- CURE DEFENSE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CURE DEFENSE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to CURE DEFENSE FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of CURE DEFENSE FUND?
- COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CURE DEFENSE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1 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