Michigan · Nonprofit
TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC
TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,446 to it, the largest being HERBERT H AND BARBARA C DOW FOUNDATION ($310,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $523k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Traverse City Curling Club Inc does
Mission
The mission of the traverse city curling club is to promote local, regional, national, and international competition in the sport of curling and to own and/or provide grounds, buildings, equipment, and facilities for this use, and to educate the community about the sport of curling. Building a strong community through the sport of curling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The club provided an introduction to the sport of curling to the community and continues promoting the sport and league play. We welcomed the public in to learn how to curl by hosting over 120 group rentals that were celebrations and gatherings of families, coworkers, and friends. We offered over 30 beginning and advanced curling classes where people tried something new and held over 45 junior classes that welcomed over 100 kids in our community. We put on 3 local tournaments and 1 regional tournament that brought in teams from around the midwest and canada. Hosted a six-day national championship event in partnership with usa curling. We drew over 1,000 spectators and live streaming, with live commentary, that drew an international audience, and had robust media coverage that brought positive attention to traverse city. We held 160 league nights for club members in the fall, winter, and spring seasons. We had 88 volunteers contributing their time as instructors, coaches, assistants, ice team technicians, and event and operations support. Nearly all of our volunteers showed up for multiple events.
$360,504 spent$174,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $360,504.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $657k to $4.4M (+564%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Katharine Sterken
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $15k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB 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
TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 70% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Traverse City International Curling Center · partnership
- Friends of Traverse City Curling Club LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC?
- TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,446 to it, the largest being HERBERT H AND BARBARA C DOW FOUNDATION ($310,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $523,446 in grants to TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC?
- HERBERT H AND BARBARA C DOW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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