· Private foundation
Philip J Curtis 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Spring Arbor Univ | $50,000 |
| Jackson School of Arts | $11,000 |
| Cattle Track Arts | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MI Theatre - Jackson | $5,000 |
| Dawn Farms | $1,000 |
| Family Service Jackson | $1,000 |
| Jackson Interfarth Sh | $1,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $1,000 |
| Cascades Humane Society | $500 |
| Turning Point USA | $500 |
| Western High School | $500 |
| TurnIn2Sports | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JSJackson School of Arts6× · 2020–2025 · $485k
- MTMichigan Theatre Jack2× · 2022–2023 · $68k
- TPTHE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MTMi Theatre Jackson MIone grant, 2024 · $75k
- MTMichigan Theatreone grant, 2020 · $58k
- PAPHOENIX ART MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The ella sharp museum provides opportunities for everyone to explore, engage in, and enjoy history and the arts.
To provide a business education that equips individuals to deliver superior service to employers and their communities.
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
The enterprise group will build and sustain a vibrant, diversified econocy, thereby improving jackson's quality of life. the enterprise group's mission is to help entrepreneuers and businesses break ground in jackson county on a new…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Purple Rose Theatre Company and the most unlike its peers is Philip C Curtis Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SEGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS ↗
- Who funds LOST RAILWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Jackson Interfaith Shelter ↗
- Who funds PHILIP C CURTIS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds GROW JACKSON ↗
- Who funds CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNIN2 SPORTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Addison P Cook III Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · Gaynel Fausell Charitable Trust · Mabel Harris Trust · Willard R and Lucille W Cowan · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Philip J Curtis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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