· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $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 |
| LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +152%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Spikes K9 Fund ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Curtis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curtis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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