· Private foundation
William and Renee Curtis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of WILLIAM AND RENEE CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEANHILLS COVENANT CHURCH | $202,500 |
| SCHWAB DAFGIVING360 | $27,640 |
| PROVIDENCE CHURCH | $5,756 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,050 |
| YOUNG AMERICA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,200 |
| THE FREEDOM STORY (FKA THE SOLD PROJECT) | $1,100 |
| SPORTS OUTREACH INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| OTHER CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PRAY AS YOU GO CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $1,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $1,000 |
| OLD SKOOL CAFE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
48 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +59%
- PSPROVIDENCE SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +88%
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PAPRAY AS YOU GOone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SSSOCIAL SKILLS AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Plus Nothing. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 95 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PathLight International Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Old Skool Cafe ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The International Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAGLE EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Sports Outreach Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Audacious Foundation · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 William and Renee Curtis Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.