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Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 31
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$182k6%
FY202431$171k16%
FY202330$159k13%
FY202229$145k21%
FY202128$145k32%
FY202029$140kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$283kEducation$149kReligion$137kHealth$105kHousing & Shelter$92kHuman Services$69kInternational$57kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$156,00060%
Madonna University$60,00060%
Loaves and Fishes Ministries$29,50062%
Catholic Biblical School of Michigan Ltd$28,00025%
New Vines International$27,50028%
Pope Francis Center$24,00060%
Neutral Zone$19,25050%
St Benedict's Preparatory School$12,5006n/a
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$12,25060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$12,00060%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$156,00060%
Madonna University$60,00060%
Loaves and Fishes Ministries$29,50062%
Catholic Biblical School of Michigan Ltd$28,00025%
New Vines International$27,50028%
Pope Francis Center$24,00060%
Neutral Zone$19,25050%
St Benedict's Preparatory School$12,5006n/a
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$12,25060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$12,00060%
Smile Train Inc$12,00060%
Michigan State University$10,0005n/a
Oakland University$10,0001n/a
St Mary - St Paul Ministry$9,50033%
Covenant House Michigan$5,00030%
Mercy High School$4,5002n/a
University of Michigan$4,00020%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$4,00040%
Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation$4,00010%
The Heat and Warmth Fund$3,50020%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$3,00030%
Beyond Basics$3,00030%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00010%
Nick Janus Foundation Co Peter Janus$2,0002n/a
Michigan State Unversity$1,5001n/a
Journey House Inc$1,00010%
Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence$1,00010%
Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
The Anti-Cruelty Society$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($480k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $156,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna University: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Ministries: $29,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCatholic Biblical School of Michigan Ltd: $28,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNew Vines International: $27,500 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPope Francis Center: $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNeutral Zone: $19,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary - St Paul Ministry: $9,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Michigan Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heat and Warmth Fund: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Basics: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJourney House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResilience Advocates for Ending Violence: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc

How much does Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc give?
Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $182,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (30%), Education (16%), Religion (14%).
Who are Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($156k), Madonna University ($60k), Loaves and Fishes Ministries ($30k).
Does Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation.
Where is Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc based?
Carl and Irene Morath Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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