Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation
Santa Fe, NM · EIN 85-0364467. Reported 42 grants totalling $124,200 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,300. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Skye Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mcmaster University | Hamilton, Ontario | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norbertine Community Santa Maria De La Vid | Albuquerque, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Providence College | Providence, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Nmhu Foundation | Las Vegas, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tulane University | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Gibralter | Gibraltar | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington State University | Pullman, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Gs Udh Foundation at the California State University of Dominguez Hills | Carson, CA | $4,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Research Foundation for SUNY | Albany, NY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $4,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Western Ontario | London, On N61 3K7 | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Fsu Research Foundation | Tallahassee, FL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Centre College | Danville, KY | $2,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Oasis Sanctuary | Benson, AZ | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mesa Verde Petroglyph Project | Velarde, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Mexico Alive | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Plan USA | Warwick, RI | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Santa Fe Desert Chorale | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Fe Dessert Chorale | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Historic Santa Fe Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Historic Sante Fe Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Think New Mexico | Santa Fe, NM | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Familia Health | Santa Fe, NM | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Plan International USA | Warwick, RI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
5 of 33 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 25%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Curators of the University of Missouri
ARCHAELOGICAL RESEARCH IN CHILLON VALLEY, PERU - University of Texas at San Antonio
EXCAVATIONS AT HUALCAYAN, ANCASH, PERU - The Nmhu Foundation
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE NEPENA RIVER VALLEY PERU - The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Foundation
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT CONCHAS UCKRO, PERU - Washington State University
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT ARENAL, BELIZE - University of Cincinnati
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT CAKAKMUL, MEXICO
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $6,000 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $38,100 | $2,500 |
| 2023 | 13 | $39,600 | $3,000 |
| 2024 | 11 | $40,500 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation has 1 of them, worth $10,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $10,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 23% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Mexico. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,300. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Mexico.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Curtiss & Mary Brennan Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1000 Cordova Place 426, Santa Fe, NM, 87505. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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