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Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
10
Organizations funded FY2017
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88% of Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
4
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$6,000
States reached, FY2017
3
Total assets, FY2017
$3k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$44kEducation$17kReligion$3kAnimals$2kRecreation & Sports$885Environment$400Health$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc$11,00020%
St Lawrence University$3,50010%
Foxcroft School$1,00010%
Millbrook School$1,00010%
The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc$1,00010%
North Salem Bridle Trails Association$68520%
13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc$50010%
North Salem Open Land Foundation Inc$40020%
Bedford Riding Lanes Association$20010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMillbrook School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Salem Bridle Trails Association: $685 over 2y, 0.2% of budget13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Salem Open Land Foundation Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Riding Lanes Association: $200 over 1y, 0.3% 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 9.

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.

Lanbro FoundationFidelity Investments …
Lanbro FoundationSC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc

How much does Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc give?
Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $16,185 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Education (25%), Religion (5%).
Who are Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ($11k), St Lawrence University ($4k), Foxcroft School ($1k).
Does Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lanbro Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc based?
Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 12 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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