California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES
INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,200,830 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($440,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Institute for Curriculum Services does
Mission
The Institute for Curriculum Services' mission is to enrich k-12 education by ensuring accurate, high-quality teaching and classroom materials about jews, judaism, and jewish history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides professional development, curriculum resources, and consultation to educators, textbook publishers, and educational institutions in order to improve the accuracy of instruction about jews, judaism, and jewish history in the united states. Activities are funded primarily through contributions, foundation grants, and program service revenue.
$1,235,535 spent$24,291 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,235,535.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $75k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 39% · 2023 67% — 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
25% of INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 16% 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
INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES?
- INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,200,830 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($440,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,200,830 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $440,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 31 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