New York · Nonprofit
CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC
CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,414,448 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $846k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $197k
What Curious Communications Inc does
Mission
Curious communications provides educational services to the general public with respect to current events, and the role of civic involvement and citizen initiatives in the democratic process. The group achieves this mission by producing regular programs in multimedia including public television broadcast that highlight civic engagement
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization mission is accomplished via the production, 50 weeks per year, of a current events newsworthy broadcast aired on public television and also available via online streaming. We also produce weekly podcasts, and conduct occasional media training events for other non-profit organizations.
$704,709 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $704,709.
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.
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 $156k to $104k (−34%).
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.
97% of CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Gus Spheeris
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $629k → $765k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC’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
CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 73% · 2021 53% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC: 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 CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC?
- CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,414,448 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,414,448 in grants to CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC 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.
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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 17 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