California · Private foundation
Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation
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.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $152k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $141k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $152k | 93% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $170k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $115k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $126k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $111k | 79% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $107k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Academy of Art | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Angel Food | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Center for Early Education | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Eisner Scholars | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Black School Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| We Care Arts Inc | $17,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Shadhika Project | $16,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Buddy Taub Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Rdk Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Shelter Partnership Inc
How this is measured
Compare Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation with peer funders
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About Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation
- How much does Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation give?
- Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $151,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (12%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Academy of Art ($53k), The Jewish Museum ($50k), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($48k).
- Does Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation 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 Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Annenberg Foundation, The Buddy Taub Foundation.
- Where is Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation based?
- Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation is based in CA.
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