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Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,425
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$658k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$35k33%
FY20242$33k0%
FY20238$42k38%
FY20227$56k29%
FY20217$56k14%
FY20207$50k57%
FY201911$49k27%
FY201810$53k40%
75% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$356kPhilanthropy$6kAnimals$5kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEnvironment$2kCrime & Legal$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Congregation of Jehovahs Witnesses$30,0003n/a
West Ridge Fire Department$3,00060%
Northwestern Pennsylvania Humane Society D/B/A Erie Humane Society$2,50050%
Julia Hospice & Palliative Care$2,00040%
Safenet Inc$1,50030%
Our Lady of the Wayside Inc$1,50030%
Erie Zoological Society$1,00020%
Asbury Woods Partnership Inc$50010%
City of Erie$5001n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.

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.

Erie Community FoundationPA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation

How much does Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation give?
Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $37,925 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (82%), Philanthropy (1%), Animals (1%).
Who are Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christian Congregation of Jehovahs Witnesses ($30k), West Ridge Fire Department ($3k), Northwestern Pennsylvania Humane Society D/B/A Erie Humane Society ($3k).
Does Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, Wabtec Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation based?
Edwin J & Patti Curtze Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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