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Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$490kEducation$145kHuman Services$106kYouth Development$90kInternational$62kFood & Nutrition$57kHealth$54kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HOLLAND PROJECT$15,000
CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$15,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$12,500
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES$12,500
THE PLAY EQUITY FUND$10,000
CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS CDC$10,000
AFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING$10,000
CREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC$5,000
NEW URBAN ARTS$5,000
FRONT PORCH COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$5,000
ARTMIX INC$5,000
CHAI LIFELINE$5,000
MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY$5,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $5k → 16%Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services: $3k → 14%Art Sparks Texas: $8k → 10%Project Linus: $2k → 8%Artist Mentorship Program: $8k → 12%SAFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC: $5k → 16%Harlem Children's Zone: $5k → 17%Safe Alliance: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%Covenant House: $3k → 17%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $3k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $5k → 14%RX ART INC: $5k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $5k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $5k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $1k → 17%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $15k → 14%Young Eisner Scholars: $5k → 14%Young Eisner Scholars: $5k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $13k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 14%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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 28 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
117

Total granted

$488k
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART
    5× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +12%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +99%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    5× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • WC
    We Care Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +30%
  • MA
    Movement Alliance Project- YASP
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
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
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Angels Gate Cultural Center Inc

To provide space for artists to work and to engage community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events.

Arts & Culture
4
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
5
Gage Academy of Art

Gage educates, enriches, & transforms our community through the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Childrens Art

The Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland aims to ensure the arts are a fundamental part of the community by providing quality, hands-on art experiences, particularly for children at risk academically or in underserved areas. Their…

Arts & Culture
7
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
8
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
10
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Cool Culture Inc

To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.

Arts & Culture
12
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Creative Aging Network - Nc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

142 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. 142 of the 165 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
140/142
Grantees still filing
89/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $47,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONTHE BLACK SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOLLAND PROJECT: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+47 more: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+47 moreNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $52,500 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FBO STEAM CODERS: $18,000 · OtherWe Care Arts Inc: $17,500 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherShadhika Project: $16,500 · OtherExtraordinary Families: $15,000 · OtherMovement Alliance Project- YASP: $15,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL: $15,000 · Other+56 more: $264,600 · Other+56 moreYoung Eisner Scholars: $30,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisne…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHIL…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $12,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE …Safe Alliance Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSafe Allian…Art Spark Texas: $7,500 · Human ServicesArt Spark T…Children of the Night: $7,500 · Human ServicesChildren of…ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $7,500 · Human ServicesARTIST MENT…RX ART INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOSCOW CONTEMPORARY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $12,500 · Human Services+5 moreTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE CENTER…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…HARLEM ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationHARLEM ACA…THE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $10,000 · EducationTHE PLAY E…The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $9,500 · EducationThe Edible…ACCESS BOOKS: $7,500 · EducationACCESS BOO…KID SPARK EDUCATION: $5,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 · EducationProject Scientist Inc: $5,000 · Education+4 more: $10,000 · Education+4 morePROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $32,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,000 · HealthFront Porch Communities Foundation: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthLIFEDRIVEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthKEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC: $2,500 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthBest Buddies International Inc: $15,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $1,500 · InternationalSOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR VIETNAM: $1,500 · InternationalCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Embracing Mothers Inc: $2,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIVE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentEAST ATLANTA KIDS CLUB INC: $1,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$397,500Other$431,600Human Services$118,500Education$107,000Health$57,500International$33,500Youth Development$32,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $52,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $30,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BLACK SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWe Care Arts Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetShadhika Project: $16,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetExtraordinary Families: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLLAND PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS HEALING HEARTS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS: $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRichmond Art Center: $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN ARTWORKS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVERMONT-SLAUSON LDC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetArt Spark Texas: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren of the Night: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetARTSTART INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPACE ONE ELEVEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE: $6,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAFRO CHARITIES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

The Andy Warhol Found…The Annenberg Foundat…The Buddy Taub Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Rdk FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Andrew W Mellon F…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ford FoundationTerra Foundation for …Shelter Partnership I…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dimensions Variable (Dv): 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Ifcm Corp: 7% of income from government
  • Artists in Residence in Everglades Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Artist Mentorship Program: 2% of income from government
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation 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 165 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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