· Private foundation
The James and Kimberly Currie 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| THE SOO LOCKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE CO | $15,000 |
| GRAND MARAIS HISTORICAL SOC INC | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MI FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| LANSING FOOD BANK | $12,500 |
| HIGHFIELDS INC | $11,150 |
| UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| MARY FREE BED HOSPITAL AND REHAB | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING | $7,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| SCOUTING OF AMERICA CROSSROADS CNCIL | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The James and Kimberly Currie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +56%
- HIHIGHFIELDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +1%
- SLSOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue ×68
Funded once
- BTBURT TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MFMARY FREE BED HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $7k
- MCMIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
Our mission is to make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive, and our vision is a community where all people value stem to inform decision making and enrich lives. (continued on schedule o)guiding principles: we help…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Provides a hands-on environment that celebrates childhood, inspires learning and encourages self-directed exploration for children.
To enhance the community by inspiring creativity, learning and curiosity.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning
Programs for local youth
Education of young people in the Montessori method
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The lansing art gallery & education center provides public awareness, education and enjoyment of the visual arts by promoting the work of michigan artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hosanna House of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE OF MICHIGAN ↗
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: Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Capital Region Community Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James and Kimberly Currie 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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