Curry College
Overview
Mission
Curry college is an inclusive community of diverse learners and educators, committed to continuing our legacy of developing effective communicators with reflective and critical thinking skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
Instruction - founded in 1879, curry college is a 146 year old private, independent institution granting undergraduate and graduate degrees to a combined enrollment of approximately 2,000 full and part time students. The college offers 40 undergraduate degrees and 6 masters degrees. The college draws its students from 33 states and 10 countries. The combined faculty and staff at curry total approximately 678.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042199867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Milton, MA, USA
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Universities
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.47; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $115M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $579K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link