North Carolina · Private foundation
The Curtis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $388k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Curtis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 56 | $388k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $202k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $205k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $3.1M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $8,112,560 | 6 | n/a |
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $1,140,250 | 4 | 1% |
| The Methodist Home for Children Inc | $196,650 | 7 | 1% |
| Rescue Missions Ministries Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Edenton Street United Methodist Church | $76,350 | 8 | n/a |
| The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hospice of Wake County Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Inter-Faith Food Shuttle | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Curtis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc · Maynard Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc
How this is measured
About The Curtis Foundation
- How much does The Curtis Foundation give?
- The Curtis Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $387,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Curtis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Health (3%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are The Curtis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($8.1M), The Educational Foundation Inc ($1.1M), The Methodist Home for Children Inc ($197k).
- Does The Curtis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Curtis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Curtis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation.
- Where is The Curtis Foundation based?
- The Curtis Foundation is based in NC.
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