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Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$262kHousing & Shelter$46kReligion$45kHuman Services$35kEducation$32kFood & Nutrition$21kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS$5,000
SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC$5,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$2,500
SALVATION ARMY$2,500
ART IN ACTION$2,500
LIFEMOVES$2,500
WINTER PARK SIDEWALK FESTIVAL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN: $3k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$380k · 22 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
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Total granted

$380k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+42%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +72%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +166%
  • AI
    ART IN ACTION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • FU
    FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • EI
    EAH Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg Florida Inc

Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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7
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
10
Westmoreland Museum of American Art

The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.

Arts & Culture
11
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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12
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Against Poverty Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Bach Soloists. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $40,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INCFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $23,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCLIFEMOVES: $17,500 · OtherLIFEMOVESSALVATION ARMY: $16,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $15,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARYUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $25,500 · Other+8 moreAmerican Bach Soloists: $70,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Bach SoloistsDENVER ART MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMART IN ACTION: $22,500 · Arts & CultureART IN ACTIONBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ARTSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INCHISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INCWINTER PARK SIDEWALK ART FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 · EducationPresident…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network: $5,000 · EducationBainbridg…FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEAH Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTERRA COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$202,500Arts & Culture$187,000Education$37,000Human Services$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Bach Soloists: $70,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetART IN ACTION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWINTER PARK SIDEWALK ART FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetVASHON OPERA: $6,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetEAH Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTERRA COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWinter Park Historical Association Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBainbridge Artisan Resource Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINTER PARK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MUKAI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

ArtsfundElizabeth Morse Geniu…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…
ArtsfundWA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Artsfund · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Charles Hosmer Morse 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.

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 34 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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