Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CUVENTURES INC
CUVENTURES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $162k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $513k
What Cuventures Inc does
Mission
Cuventures is organized, and will at all times be operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of concordia university wisconsin foundation, inc. (ein: 39-6077337)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operationalize academic research and scientific discoveries (34% of time and 34% of resources) - cuventures will help coordinate and translate academic research and scientific discoveries into products and processes that are useful for the betterment of humanity, with an emphasis on innovations that address unmet medical and healthcare needs for the general public. This activity will be overseen by the board of directors and undertaken by a combination of officers, directors, volunteers, and employees from cuventures, the supported organization, and concordia university. This activity supports cuventures charitable and scientific exempt purposes by furthering scientific knowledge and helping develop products and processes that serve the greater public good, including improving human health through innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical discoveries.education and mentoring (33% of time and 33% of resources) - cuventures will provide mentoring and educational programs on entrepreneurship, in partnership with concordia university, with a focus on the students and faculty of concordia university. These mentoring and educational programs will help teach students, faculty, and others…
$599,117 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $599,117.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $668k to $1.7M (+154%).
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.
57% of CUVENTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Christine Specht-Palmert
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $429k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Concordia University Wisconsin Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CUVENTURES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CUVENTURES 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
CUVENTURES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 CUVENTURES INC.
“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
100% of CUVENTURES INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CUVENTURES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CUVENTURES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Concordia University Inc · exempt
- Concordia University Wisconsin Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUVENTURES 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 CUVENTURES INC?
- CUVENTURES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CUVENTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to CUVENTURES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CUVENTURES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST 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 CUVENTURES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2022–2024), 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