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Dave and Wendy Morgan Foundation at a glance

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Dave and Wendy Morgan 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$867kHuman Services$709kFood & Nutrition$682kHealth$596kInternational$480kEnvironment$259kAnimals$213kHousing & Shelter$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
$35,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hope 4 Kids Int'l Water 4 Kids$170,000
Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Fou$125,000
International Esperanza Project$100,000
FAST Blackfeet$100,000
Child Bridge$100,000
Blackfeet Community College$90,000
Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab Mo$75,000
Empowering Strides$50,000
Rosie Project$50,000
Frisco Family Services$50,000
Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Found$50,000
Mobile Meals$50,000
Montana Food Bank Network Inc$40,000
Anaconda Community Foundation$35,000
Armed Services YMCA Camp Pendleton$26,000
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 (FY21–25, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Wounded Warriors: $5k → 12%Child Bridge: $100k → 18%Frisco Family Services: $40k → 8%Florence Crittenton Home Services F: $15k → 9%Child Bridge Inc: $60k → 18%Frisco Family Services: $50k → 5%Lovepacs: $5k → 8%Homage: $5k → 9%Child Bridge: $51k → 18%Frisco Family Services: $40k → 5%Child Bridge: $10k → 18%Frisco Family Services: $5k → 5%The Road Home: $5k → 9%Bella House: $15k → 5%Hospice of the Valley: $25k → 11%Hope Women's Center: $25k → 5%Hospice of the Valey: $25k → 11%Hope Women's Center: $20k → 5%Road Home: $10k → 8%Hope Womens Center: $20k → 5%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

WA
ID
MT
NY
PA
CA
UT
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 26 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
55

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+18%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FB
    FAST BLACKFEET
    3× · 2023–2025 · $320k · revenue +153%
  • IE
    International Esperanza Project
    3× · 2023–2025 · $270k · revenue +0%
  • CB
    CHILD BRIDGE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • H4
    Hope 4 Kids Water 4 Kids Internatio
    one grant, 2024 · $140k
  • W
    Water4Kids
    one grant, 2022 · $132k
  • H4
    Hope 4 Kids (Water 4 Kids) International
    one grant, 2023 · $112k
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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc

Ronald McDonald House Mountain West surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children.

Health
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
6
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
7
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
8
Sunshine Rescue Mission

Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…

Religion
9
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc

The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Inc.s (Food Banks) mission is Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Banks vision is Healthy Food. Every Person, Every Day.

Food & Nutrition
11
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
12
Southwest Forensic Nursing & Healthcare

To ensure patient-centered, trauma-informed healthcare and support services to all survivors of violence, with a focused commitment to delivering rape and sexual assault victim services to underserved populations.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Social Media Freedom Foundation Corp. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hope 4 Kids International (Water 4 Kids): $386,628 · OtherHope 4 Kids International (Water 4 Kids)Hope 4 Kids Water 4 Kids Internatio: $140,000 · OtherHope 4 Kids Water 4 Kids InternatioWater4Kids: $132,248 · OtherWater4KidsHope 4 Kids (Water 4 Kids) International: $112,000 · OtherDanielle Byron Henry Migraine Found: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherBORDER911 FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Other+52 more: $1,140,251 · Other+52 moreBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $368,525 · EducationBLACKFEET COMM…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER…ROSIE PROJECT: $50,000 · EducationROSIE PROJECTWORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $23,500 · EducationCHILD BRIDGE INC: $221,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE…FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $135,000 · Human ServicesFRISCO FAMIL…Hope Womens Center: $65,000 · Human ServicesHope Womens …Hospice of the Valley: $50,000 · Human ServicesHospice of t…+6 more: $60,000 · Human Services+6 moreFAST BLACKFEET: $320,000 · Food & NutritionFAST BLACKF…MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOO…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FO…LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionInternational Esperanza Project: $270,000 · InternationalWomen of the World: $50,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $15,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalDanielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation: $110,000 · HealthEMPOWERING STRIDES: $65,000 · HealthREAL OPTIONS: $65,000 · HealthSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthANACONDA COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONINC: $21,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $130,000 · AnimalsCanines With a Cause: $12,000 · Animals
Other$2,276,127Education$592,025Human Services$531,000Food & Nutrition$475,000International$340,000Health$287,000Animals$142,000

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 budgetBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $368,525 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $320,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetInternational Esperanza Project: $270,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $221,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $135,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $130,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDanielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetBORDER911 FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERING STRIDES: $65,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetREAL OPTIONS: $65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHope Womens Center: $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetANACONDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMOBILE MEALS: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen of the World: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHISTORIC ST MARY'S MISSION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSUPPORT EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETS: $25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBella House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEagle Mount: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCanines With a Cause: $12,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTREE UTAH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLake Washington HS PTSA: $8,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetPW LITCHFIELD HERITAGE CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLovepacs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A BRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Town Pump Charitable …Gianforte Family Char…First Interstate Banc…Headwaters Health Fou…Montana Community Fou…Communities Foundatio…Sample Foundation IncMontana Healthcare Fo…Cross Charitable Foun…Texas Instruments Fou…Otto Bremer Trust
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Texas Instruments Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust

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 Dave and Wendy Morgan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dave and Wendy Morgan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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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    How do I get to Dave and Wendy Morgan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dave and Wendy Morgan 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 93 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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