· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MI Theatre - Jackson | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Jackson Interfarth Sh | $1,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $1,000 |
| Dawn Farms | $1,000 |
| Family Service Jackson | $1,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $500 |
| Western High School | $500 |
| Cascades Humane Society | $500 |
| TurnIn2Sports | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 36 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.
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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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Philip J Curtis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip J Curtis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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