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Dorothy M Morrison Foundation at a glance

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Dorothy M Morrison Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$489kCommunity Improvement$466kReligion$264kHuman Services$126kHealth$40kArts & Culture$13k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT BEND ALIVE INC$130,000
KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES$75,103
BARTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
GREAT BEND FOUNDATION$30,000
CENTRAL KANSAS CASA$21,000
LIVE LIKE JESUS TODAY MINISTRIES IN$15,000
YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES$10,000
CENTRAL KS DREAM CENTER$6,500
BC HISTORICAL SOCIETY$150
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 (FY21–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LASTING LIFE MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%CENTRAL KANSAS PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Dorothy M Morrison Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 92%.

Dorothy M Morrison Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.5M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
ReligionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LL
    LIVE LIKE JESUS TODAY MINISTRIES IN
    4× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +98%
  • YC
    YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +75%
  • KI
    KYMEL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • CB
    Clara Barton Hospital Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -10%
  • CK
    CENTRAL KANSAS PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +29%
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
South Central Community Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
2
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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3
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
4
Kansas Newspaper Foundation

To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.

Community Improvement
5
Kansas Bar Foundation

To serve the citizens of kansas and the legal profession through funding charitable and educational projects that foster the welfare, honor and integrity of the legal system by improving its accessibility, equality and uniformity, by…

Crime & Legal
6
Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition Inc

To regenerate kansas grazing land resources through cooperative management, economics, ecology, production, education and technical assistance programs.

Food & Nutrition
7
Kansas Family Voice Inc

Kfv seeks to establish a kansas where god is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished.

—
8
Care Beyond the Boulevard Inc

Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) provides quality medical care, case management, and respite services to the homeless, uninsured, and vulnerable people of Greater Kansas City.

Health
9
Kansas Family Foundation

Our goal is to come alongside the church in its gospel-first mission to transform lives and transform culture.

Religion
10
Health Ministries Clinic Inc

To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ

Religion
11
The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation

Provide a vehicle by which individuals, families, businesses, and organizations can financially support the needs of their communities. solicit funds and educate potential donors about the advantages of giving for both the donor and their…

Community Improvement
12
Kansas Wheat Commission Research Foundation

To promote and fund scientific wheat research, which shall include the funding of scientific wheat research projects that are awarded grants by the kansas wheat commission.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Legal Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clara Barton Hospital Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Golden Belt Community Foundation: $1,015,000 · PhilanthropyGolden Belt Community Foundation+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyBARTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $418,751 · OtherBARTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FO…CENTRAL KANSAS CASA: $104,000 · OtherCENTRAL KANSAS CASAKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $75,103 · OtherKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC+5 more: $55,650 · Other+5 moreGREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC: $306,114 · Community ImprovementGREAT BEND FOUNDATION INCGREAT BEND ALIVE INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT BEND ALIVE INCLIVE LIKE JESUS TODAY MINISTRIES IN: $164,834 · ReligionLIVE LIKE JE…YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC: $110,000 · ReligionYOUTH CORE M…CENTRAL KS DREAM CENTER INC: $20,276 · ReligionCENTRAL KS D…FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationCENTRAL KANSAS PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLASTING LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKYMEL INC: $20,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,023,000Other$653,504Community Improvement$606,114Religion$295,110Education$100,000Human Services$40,000Health$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGolden Belt Community Foundation: $1,015,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetGREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC: $306,114 over 6y, 77% of budgetGREAT BEND ALIVE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLIVE LIKE JESUS TODAY MINISTRIES IN: $164,834 over 4y, 18% of budgetYOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $75,103 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL KS DREAM CENTER INC: $20,276 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetKYMEL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetClara Barton Hospital Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLASTING LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

Golden Belt Community…Robert E and Patricia…Greater HorizonsAmazonsmile Foundation
Golden Belt Community FoundationKS24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Golden Belt Community Foundation · Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Greater Horizons · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dorothy M Morrison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy M Morrison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dorothy M Morrison Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dorothy M Morrison 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 19 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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