· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| ST MATHEWS CHURCH | $3,000 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO | $1,000 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FOXCROFT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BEDFORD RIDING LANES ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION | $200 |
| NORTH SALEM BRIDAL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO | $185 |
| UVA CRAIG SLINGLUFF HEALTH FOUNDATI | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +24%
- NSNORTH SALEM BRIDLE TRAILS ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $685 · revenue -58%
- NSNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $400 · revenue +338%
Funded once
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +4%- SMST MATHEWS CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
Foxcroft Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +82%
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.
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.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Conservation of land
Land conservation
Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Open Space preservation and education
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
To promote, support, preserve, and protect the recreational facilities, natural habitats, permanent green space and historic and cultural resources of knox farm state park through educational programs and other activities.
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SALEM BRIDLE TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD RIDING LANES ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lanbro Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher J & Melissa S Morley Private Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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