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Curtis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ODU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $46,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF S HPT ROADS | $30,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ODU WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK | $4,200 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE | $3,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIV ALUMNI ASSOCIATOI | $2,500 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| WHRO | $1,200 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $1,000 |
| LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
39 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ODOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +150%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +58%
- HRHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- OFODU FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2018 · $10k
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -11%
Spikes K9 Fundgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
To provide brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
The organization's purpose is to promote excellence in teaching science and to provide communication amoung science teachers in Virginia.
Access partnership facilitates the connection between those with health care needs and available resources. vision is that all residents of hampton roads can obtain the health care that they need to achieve personal wellness. focus is…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Indigo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Giving USA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norfolk Public Library ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS PRIDE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Recovery for the City ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Spikes K9 Fund ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL VIRGINIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds D'ART CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Townebank Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · The Helen G Gifford Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Curtis Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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