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.

The Curtis Foundation

The Curtis Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Curtis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$388k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$9.5MHealth$310kHuman Services$290kReligion$232kHousing & Shelter$186kFood & Nutrition$141kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kCivil Rights$60kOther$0

02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $140k
$10k–50k12 grants · $173k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC	$75,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BESSEMER	$30,000
EDENTON STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$20,000
METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN	$18,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION	$15,000
DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRS	$15,000
INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
DURHAM RESCUE MISSION	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,000
SCOTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER	$10,000
UNC WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL	$10,000
WAKEMED FOUNDATION	$6,000
BESSEMER CITY HISTORY AND ARTS SOCIETY	$5,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 70 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

Still filing today

47%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +20%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc
7× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +37%
RM
RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +41%

Funded once

RC
Religious Community Services of New Berngraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +94%
UW
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -73%
UW
UNC WOMEN'S COUNCIL
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education

Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health

The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education

North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education

The Medical Foundation of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North Car

See schedule oto render aid and assistance to wake forest university health sciences (wfuhs) and north carolina baptist hospital (ncbh) in their pursuits by approved methods for the promotion of medical science and medical knowledge, the…

Health

North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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Queens University of Charlotte

Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 111 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/50

Grantees still filing

33/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,348,865Human Services$347,650Education$205,500Food & Nutrition$62,500Health$51,750Philanthropy$50,000Animals$40,000

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC38.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Curtis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Curtis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home