· Private foundation
The James and Kimberly Currie Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GRAND MARAIS HISTORICAL SOC INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE CO | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The James and Kimberly Currie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 94%.
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +61%
- 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 -4%
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
- 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 HOSANNA HOUSE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James and Kimberly Currie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Kimberly Currie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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