· Private foundation
The Curtis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| 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 |
| DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRS | $15,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP | $15,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| SCOTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNC WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| DURHAM RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WAKEMED FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BESSEMER CITY HISTORY AND ARTS SOCIETY | $5,500 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +20%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +37%- RMRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- UWUNC WOMEN'S COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UWUNITED WAY OF COASTAL CAROLINA INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -73%
- RCReligious Community Services of New Berngraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +94%
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.
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.
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…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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.
To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.
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.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
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…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 111 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 THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BROADCAST HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMATES ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds REX HEALTHCARE 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: 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
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 The 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.