· Private foundation
Curtis Finlay Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k80 grants · $397k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $76,992 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF BREWTON | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ESCAMBIA COUNTY AL DRUG COURT | $20,000 |
| BREWTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| POLLARD METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ESCAMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $16,505 |
| JAY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WS NEAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROTTSCHAFER DAY CARE INC | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND | $10,000 |
| TR MILLER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WILMER HALL CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| POLLARD-MCCALL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Curtis Finlay Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
136 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 26 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
- ECESCAMBIA COUNTY REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%
- MFMY FATHERS ARROW INC5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- FMFIRST METHODIST CHURCH - BREWTONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BCBREWTON COUNCIL OF THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +75% · 35% of their budget
- ECESCAMBIA CO SHERIFF'S OFFICEone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Rescue unwanted dogs
Animal Control and Adoption Services
Rescue Dogs from Alabama
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
Save animals in a county with no animal services
Provide fire protection services
Child Advocacy Services
Fire protection
The department provides volunteer fire and EMS service to approximately 3800 residents (and those passing through on I-40) in East Roane County Tennessee.
Provides fire protection services for rural homes and businesses in campbell county, tn. assists with forest fires and rescue operations in east tennessee.
CFHR brings in dogs and cats from owner surrender or shelters. We foster the animals, give them needed vet treatment then find them suitable homes.
Care and placement of abandoned animals
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 212 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: First National Bank Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Curtis Finlay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curtis Finlay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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