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CURE STARTS NOW INC

EIN 26-0269131 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2025
$5,655,854
Expenses 2025
$8,438,186

Program services were 89.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G48
Classification
1200
Street
10280 CHESTER RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KEITH DESSERICH

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $140,831
    From this org
    $111,793
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,038
    Hours/week
    60

  • BROOKE DESSERICH

    CEO & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $78,643
    From this org
    $62,249
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,394
    Hours/week
    40

  • TERRY REGAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GAVIN BAUMGARDNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • DAN LEE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALYSSA HAWRANKO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAMARA EKIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE WEINER

    CIO

    Total calculated
    $142,280
    From this org
    $123,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,181
    Hours/week
    60

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,655,854
    Expenses
    $8,438,186
    Contributions
    $4,510,392
    Grants paid
    $5,036,883
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,080,693
    Expenses
    $4,760,307
    Contributions
    $3,674,963
    Grants paid
    $2,271,664
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,231,630
    Expenses
    $6,057,974
    Contributions
    $4,315,043
    Grants paid
    $4,144,313

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • CSN EVENTS INC

    501(C)(3) · FUNDRAISING FOR CANCER RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND SUPPORT · OH

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.