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Cureshank

Cureshank (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,102 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BREVARD INC ($200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$598k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$727k
Net assets
$1.1M
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Cureshank does

Mission

CureSHANK has a singular purpose: To accelerate the development of treatments for Phelan-McDermid Syndrome and SHANK-related disorders. Our approach is to identify and fund projects that overcome critical barriers to successful drug development and to coordinate scientific efforts to improve efficiency and speed in the field.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cureshank will bring the scientific community together by organizing scientific symposia and other meetings. With our scientific stakeholders, we will develop a research roadmap to a cure for shank-related disorders. We will also serve as an honest broker to enable collaboration among shank researchers and coordination of their projects to improve the speed and efficiency of research.

    $160,855 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    71% of program spending
  2. Cureshank will fund targeted research studies, including scientific projects that elucidate the underlying disease mechanisms, that identify and validate targets for drug development, and that de-risk promising drug targets. Cureshank will also fund certain promising clinical trials readiness initiatives. These activities are needed to increase the number of drug targets moving from academic research labs into successful industry-sponsored clinical trials.

    $63,398 spentof which $20,633 as grants
    28% of program spending
  3. Cureshank will advocate for increased funding of shank research by other stakeholders and strategize with researchers on initiatives, such as seed grants, that could help attract research investment by other funders.

    $928 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,181.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2020 Revenue 188 ($46k) Expenses 210 ($8k) Net assets 275 ($57k)2021 Revenue 2230 ($548k) Expenses 480 ($18k) Net assets 2824 ($586k)2022 Revenue 1985 ($487k) Expenses 5805 ($220k) Net assets 4113 ($854k)2023 Revenue 1894 ($465k) Expenses 7610 ($288k) Net assets 5018 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 2435 ($598k) Expenses 13958 ($528k) Net assets 5353 ($1.1M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2435)Expenses (13958)Net assets (5353)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 2020 to 2021, from $57k to $586k (+928%).

$21k
$57k
$586k
$854k
$1.0M
$1.1M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Cureshank’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’19
$38k
’20
$529k
’21
$268k
’22
$177k
’23
$70k
’24
23
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.

2021202220232024
Listed4447
Joined·+0+0+3
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $6k → $196k.

12 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Cureshank’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

Cureshank has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

79% 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 Cureshank.

28%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 59% · 2022 39% · 2023 51% — 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

60% of Cureshank's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

79% of Cureshank's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $150k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from California funders.

NY
NJ
CT
CA
NC
TX

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Cureshank holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve22.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)89% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Cureshank?
Cureshank (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,102 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BREVARD INC ($200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Cureshank have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $727,102 in grants to Cureshank, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cureshank?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BREVARD INC 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 Cureshank find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2024), 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