Tennessee · Private foundation
Mike Curb 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 26
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- 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 Mike Curb 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $542k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $2.2M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $635k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont University | $1,507,266 | 5 | 0% |
| Grammy Museum Foundation Inc | $640,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Saint Thomas Health Foundations | $300,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute | $280,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Inc | $267,000 | 4 | 52% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $262,075 | 2 | n/a |
| The National Museum of African American Music | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Middle Tn | $200,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mike Curb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
How this is measured
About Mike Curb Foundation
- How much does Mike Curb Foundation give?
- Mike Curb Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,737,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Mike Curb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Education (25%), Public Benefit (5%).
- Who are Mike Curb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Belmont University ($1.5M), Grammy Museum Foundation Inc ($640k), Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc ($600k).
- Does Mike Curb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mike Curb 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 Mike Curb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is Mike Curb Foundation based?
- Mike Curb Foundation is based in TN.
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