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CURESHANK

EIN 84-2240648 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$597,811
Expenses 2024
$528,155

Program services were 86.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H84
Classification
1200
Street
11777 SAN VICENTE BLVD STE 500

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CureSHANK has a singular purpose: To accelerate the development of treatments for Phelan-McDermid Syndrome and SHANK-related disorders. Our approach is to identify and fund projects that overcome critical barriers to successful drug development and to coordinate scientific efforts to improve efficiency and speed in the field.

  • CureSHANK will bring the scientific community together by organizing scientific symposium and other meetings. With our scientific stakeholders, we will develop a research roadmap to a cure for SHANK-related disorders. We will also serve as an honest broker to enable collaboration among SHANK researchers and coordination of their projects to improve the speed and efficiency of research.

    Expenses $279,862 · Grants $83,728

  • CureSHANK will fund targeted research studies, including scientific projects that elucidate the underlying disease mechanisms, that identify and validate targets for drug development, and that de-risk promising drug targets. CureSHANK will also fund certain promising clinical trials readiness initiatives. These activities are needed to increase the number of drug targets moving from academic research labs into successful industry-sponsored clinical trials.

    Expenses $131,845

  • CureSHANK will advocate for increased funding of SHANK research by other stakeholders and strategize with researchers on initiatives, such as seed grants, that could help attract research investment by other funders.

    Expenses $45,063

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Geraldine Bliss

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Talya Emery Silva

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Abby Lievense

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Laura Hinrichsen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Grace Li

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jenny Graham Beeson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Laura Hinrichsen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Paulina Rychenkova

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $597,811
    Expenses
    $528,155
    Contributions
    $586,766
    Grants paid
    $83,728
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $464,972
    Expenses
    $287,968
    Contributions
    $464,968
    Grants paid
    $50,633
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $487,302
    Expenses
    $219,660
    Contributions
    $487,299
    Grants paid
    $5,000

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,552
    Expenses
    $18,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $586,406

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $46,065
    Expenses
    $7,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,028

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $24,550
    Expenses
    $3,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,766

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.