· Private foundation
Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCMASTER UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $5,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE GS UDH FOUNDATION AT THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY OF DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $4,700 |
| BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | $1,800 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| THE HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION | $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.
US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($217k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($36k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($36k)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 12%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSANTA FE DESERT CHORALE6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +65%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%
- BSBLUE SKYE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $7k
- IFINSTITUT FRANCOIS D'ETUDES ANDENASone grant, 2019 · $5k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 49 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 SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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