New Mexico · Private foundation
Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $41k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $587k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $41k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $40k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $38k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $18k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $30k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Desert Chorale | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Skye Foundation | $10,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Yale University | $5,346 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Anselm College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Desert Chorale | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Skye Foundation | $10,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Yale University | $5,346 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Anselm College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $4,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Florida State University Research Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Centre College | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Oasis Sanctuary Foundation Ltd | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Mexico Alive | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Think New Mexico | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation
- How much does Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation give?
- Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $40,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (56%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Santa Fe Desert Chorale ($12k), The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($10k), Blue Skye Foundation ($10k).
- Does Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation based?
- Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation is based in NM.
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