Maine · Nonprofit
The Susan L Curtis Foundation
The Susan L Curtis Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,046,021 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($321,428). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What The Susan L Curtis Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Camp Susan Curtis is to provide a transformative camp experience that nurtures self-confidence and a sense of belonging in Maine children facing economic hardship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Camp Susan Curtis offers Maine children facing economic hardship a caring, serene setting to build confidence and make meaningful connections while immersed in the outdoors. Campers are invited from every county in Maine and are referred directly by school and community referral partners. Our 10-day overnight camp curriculum is designed to foster curiosity in campers, giving them opportunities to try new activities and challenging them to explore the world around them in a supportive environment where they can make mistakes and recover. These foundational skills and life experiences are reinforced as many campers return year after year, preparing them for life after Camp Susan Curtis and pursuit of their personal, educational, and career aspirations.
$851,460 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $851,460.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.4M to $5.7M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of The Susan L Curtis Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Scott Merrow
Executive Director
Board chair
Nolan Reichl
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $127k → $232k.
9 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Susan L Curtis Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Susan L Curtis Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Susan L Curtis Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 39% · 2019 17% · 2020 13% · 2021 60% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of The Susan L Curtis Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of The Susan L Curtis Foundation's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $696k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Susan L Curtis Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Susan L Curtis Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation?
- The Susan L Curtis Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,046,021 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($321,428). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Susan L Curtis Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $2,046,021 in grants to The Susan L Curtis Foundation, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Susan L Curtis Foundation?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $321,428 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Susan L Curtis Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing