Funding search · EIN 237411083 · Erie, PA

Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation

Name: Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation grants, 2021–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

711
grants reported: $192.1M
total given: 2021–2025
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

campaign work education center implementation opps expansion

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

School choice, charter networks, microschools, and education savings account campaigns
Free-market and constitutional think tanks in DC and state capitals
Civics education, free expression, and American founding programs
K-12 instructional models: literacy, STEM, career and technical education
New York cultural and biomedical institutions (Frick, Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell)
State-level policy networks in PA, NC, AZ, OH, WI, GA, NV

Typical grant

Median grant is $100,000, with the middle half between $50,000 and $250,000. The seven-figure checks go to national education intermediaries and think tanks they already know well: Charter School Growth Fund, AEI, Hudson Institute, Khan Academy, VELA. Giving repeats heavily, with 711 grants to only 271 recipients over five years, so most money flows to organizations they have supported before, often more than once in the same year for different purposes.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“UNRESTRICTED”
“GEN OPPS”
“EXPANSION & GEN OPPS”
“ESA IMPLEMENTATION”
“CORE LEARNING, STEM, CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie work to school choice implementation, civics and founding-era education, or economic opportunity research, not general education equity.
Ask $100,000 to $250,000 for a first grant; seven-figure asks go to established partners only.
Name the individual scholar or chair the money supports; they fund named work like 'STEVEN WILSON'S WORK' and 'YUVAL CHAIR'.
Signal willingness to take unrestricted or general operating support; that is their dominant grant structure.

Worth knowing: This is an ideologically coherent portfolio: free-market think tanks, school choice advocacy, and free expression organizations, with a New York institutional layer (Frick, Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell) that reads as family relationship giving rather than open competition. Despite the Erie, PA address, the money concentrates in NY and DC, and Pennsylvania grants cluster around state policy and school choice groups.

1 grant matching “hayek” · $200,000

$200,000
Clemson University Foundation (Cisc) · Clemson, SC · 2023
Restricted - $200,000 for the clemson institute for the study of capitalism for two hayek scholars

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Charter School Growth Fund5 grants · $20.1M
American Enterprise Institute5 grants · $17.6M
Vela Education Fund5 grants · $6.1M
Khan Academy3 grants · $6.0M
Equitable Facilities Fund2 grants · $6.0M
Bradley Impact Fund Daf2 grants · $5.8M
Rockefeller University6 grants · $5.0M
Success Academy4 grants · $3.6M
Hudson Institute4 grants · $3.5M
Bradley Impact Fund4 grants · $3.5M

Giving over time

$23.9M

2021

$28.8M

2022

$35.1M

2023

$48.6M

2024

$55.6M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 711 grants.

$5.5M
Bradley Impact Fund Daf · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
Unrestricted
$5.0M
Charter School Growth Fund · Denver, CO · 2025
Unrestricted
$5.0M
Charter School Growth Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2024
Unrestricted
$5.0M
Equitable Facilities Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$5.0M
Charter School Growth Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2023
Unrestricted
$5.0M
Charter School Growth Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2022
Unrestricted
$5.0M
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2025
Yuval chair, storey chairs, other projects
$4.2M
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Restricted - $4,000,000 yuval levin, ben & jenna storey, and other work. Unrestricted - $150,000
$3.1M
Hudson Institute · Washington, DC · 2025
Wrm's work, political studies program, gen opps
$3.0M
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Restricted - $3,000,000 for annual fund/curry chair
$3.0M
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$2.5M
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$2.0M
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$2.0M
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2025
Campaign
$2.0M
Stand Together Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Nextladder ventures partnership
$2.0M
Vela Education Fund · Arlington, VA · 2025
Founders who focus on core learning, stem, career and technical education, and economics and entrepreneurship.
$2.0M
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$2.0M
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2024
Restricted - $2,000,000 capital campaign
$2.0M
Vela Education Fund · Arlington, VA · 2024
Restricted - $2,000,000 grant recipients who focus on core learning, stem, career & technical education, and economics & entrepreneurship
$2.0M
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1.5M
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.5M
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.4M
Success Academy · New York, NY · 2023
Restricted - $1,250,000 - 5yr moonshot campaign. Unrestricted - $100,000
$1.3M
Bill of Rights Institute · Arlington, VA · 2025
America 250 efforts, bri jr., and work in pa, nc, va, az, oh, wi, ga, and nv
$1.3M
Success Academy Charter Schools · New York, NY · 2025
Moonshot campaign
$1.3M
Success Academy · New York, NY · 2024
Restricted - $1,250,000 moonshot campaign excluding brick and mortar
$1.3M
Bradley Impact Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
Unrestricted
$1.2M
New York Hall of Science · Corona, NY · 2023
Restricted - $1,000,000 for cityworks exhibition. Restricted - $1,000 for cecily selby lab in her memory. Unrestricted - $210,000
$1.2M
Cato Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Restricted - $1,000,000 - vision for liberty campaign. Unrestricted - $200,000
$1.0M
Heterodox Academy · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Bradley Impact Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Restricted - $1,000,000 philanthropy roundtable higher ed impact fund
$1.0M
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Uatx · Austin, TX · 2024
Restricted - $1,000,000 scholarship fund
$1.0M
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Vela Education Fund · Arlington, VA · 2023
Restricted - $1,000,000 for schools that focus on core learning, stem, career & technical education, and economics & entrepreneurship
$1.0M
Bradley Impact Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Unrestricted
$1.0M
City Fund · Beaverton, OR · 2022
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Vela Education Fund · Arlington, VA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Equitable Facilities Fund · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$1.0M
Vertex Partnership Academies · Bronx, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$750,000
Great Hearts Academies · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
For academically at-risk students
$750,000
Bill of Rights Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
Restricted - $750,000 unrestricted, a250, bri jr.
$750,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$700,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2024
Unrestricted
$675,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2023
Restricted - $500,000 for new wing project. Unrestricted - $175,000
$625,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$600,000
Cristo Rey Network · Chicago, IL · 2025
Advancing excellence initiative
$600,000
American Federation for Children · Washington, DC · 2024
Restricted - $100,000 education campaign for federal tax credit. Unrestricted - $500,000
$560,000
Drexel Fund · South Bend, IN · 2025
Unrestricted
$550,000
Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2023
Restricted - $400,000 - campaign gift. Unrestricted - $150,000
$550,000
Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$550,000
Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$500,000
3de · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
American Federation for Children · Dallas, TX · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
Catalyze Challenge · Baltimore, MD · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
Center for Teen Flourishing · Edgemont, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
Emergent Order Foundation · Austin, TX · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
National Constitution Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
Seton Education Partners · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$500,000
3de · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Unrestricted
$500,000
Drexel Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Unrestricted
$500,000
Great Hearts Academies · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Restricted - $500,000 for academically at-risk students
$500,000
Palmetto Promise Institute · Columbia, SC · 2024
Restricted - $500,000 sc emergency scholarships for low-income students
$500,000
3de · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Unrestricted
$500,000
Drexel Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Unrestricted
$500,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Restricted - $500,000 for catalyze challenge
$500,000
Partnership Schools · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$500,000
State Policy Network · Arlington, VA · 2023
Restricted - $250,000 for spn's poverty project. Restricted - $250,000 for unrestricted/practical federalism center
$500,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$500,000
Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$500,000
Success Academy · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$500,000
Success Academy · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$500,000
Vmts Education · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$480,000
Primer Foundation · Wellesley, MA · 2025
Tx expansion work in partnership with bpue
$400,000
American Exchange Project · Sudbury, MA · 2025
Unrestricted
$400,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2025
Unrestricted
$400,000
Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2025
Campaign for the frick
$400,000
American Exchange Project · Sudbury, MA · 2024
Unrestricted
$400,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2024
Unrestricted
$400,000
Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2024
Restricted - $400,000 frick campaign
$400,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2024
Restricted - $400,000 children's entrepreneur markets and esa implementation
$375,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2023
Unrestricted
$375,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2022
Unrestricted
$375,000
Atlas Network · Arlington, VA · 2021
Unrestricted
$350,000
Children'S Scholarship Fund · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted and fstc implementation
$350,000
Economic Policy Innovation Center · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
Onyourmark Education Co Cambiar Education · Encino, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
Philanthropy Roundtable · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
National civics bee
$350,000
Vmts Education · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$350,000
National Constitution Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$350,000
Philanthropy Roundtable · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$350,000
Vmts Education · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$350,000
Vmts Education · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$333,000
University of Florida Foundation · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Unrestricted

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