Tennessee · Private foundation
Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $554k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 17 | $25k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $30k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $14k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $14k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linville Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Lick Creek | $10,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Franklins Charge Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heritage Plantation Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dudley & Walter Morgan 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 Rich Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation
- How much does Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation give?
- Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (19%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Linville Foundation Inc ($11k), Friends of Lick Creek ($11k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($10k).
- Does Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rich Foundation, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation based?
- Dudley & Walter Morgan Foundation is based in TN.
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