· Private foundation
The Mary C Currie Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MIDLAND | $39,000 |
| CITY OF AUBURN | $20,000 |
| AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| THE ARC OF MIDLAND | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND MANOR | $5,000 |
| HOME TO STAY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 24% 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 11% of The Mary C Currie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCITY OF MIDLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $290k
- COCITY OF AUBURN4× · 2021–2024 · $45k
- MPMEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH3× · 2017–2019 · $25k
Funded once
- BOBBBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- EVEagle Village Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +43%
- WMWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +193%
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 protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To provide facilities for nonprofit organizations to enjoy the experience of nature in michigan, promote ourdoor education, and to offer camping enjoyment to the people of midland county.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Hospice provides care from the heart to fulfill the unique needs of patients and families.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RECOVERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TONI & TRISH HOUSE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds DAHLIA HILL SOCIETY OF MIDLAND ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND VOLUNTEERS FOR RECYCLING ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FISH TALES ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Barstow Foundation · The Doan Family Foundation · Laura Ludington Hollenbeck Foundation · United Way of Midland County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mary C Currie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary C Currie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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