Texas · Nonprofit
CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION
CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,978 to it, the largest being BENNACK POLAN FOUNDATION A57121005 ($62,570). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $-6019
What Curtain Up Cancer Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to ease the affects of cancer through the creative arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization organizes and host an annual event called "the six". Thisevent is a celebration of the power within. The six is a unique show thatcelebrates the lives of six people who have been affected by cancer. Eachyear, through a community collaboration, six honorees are selected, andtheir stories are artfully created into an onstage performance. The storiesare performed by professional actors, singers and dancers and take theaudience on a journey of the honorees' lives through a dramatic combinationof storytelling, song and dance. All six stories are unique but the onelink that weaves the stories together is the fortitude in which thehonorees live, survive, and celebrate, even when affected by cancer.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $18k to $62k (+242%).
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.
100% of CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Amy Gilmour
Executive director
Board chair
Rachel Larsen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $77.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CURTAIN UP CANCER 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
CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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: 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CURTAIN UP CANCER 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION?
- CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,978 to it, the largest being BENNACK POLAN FOUNDATION A57121005 ($62,570). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $62,978 in grants to CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION?
- BENNACK POLAN FOUNDATION A57121005 is the largest funder on record, with $62,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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