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Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $776k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $594k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES HOSMER MORSE FOUNDATION | $2,700,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE - INNOVATION TRIANGLE | $500,000 |
| BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY | $109,000 |
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $100,000 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $100,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL HOME INC | $76,000 |
| A GIFT FOR TEACHING | $55,000 |
| GARDENS AT DEPUGH NURSING CENTER | $53,000 |
| ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $51,000 |
| DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $46,000 |
| ORLANDO BALLET | $40,000 |
| OPERA ORLANDO | $40,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $39,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING SHARED SERVICES ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $793k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $681k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCHARLES HOSMER MORSE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +11% · 57% of their budget
- HOHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +5%
- UAUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE - FRESHWATER CURRICULAR RESEARCHone grant, 2022 · $750k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA - ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCE CNTRone grant, 2021 · $300k
- BFBACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY 2019 PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $57k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
The mission of visit orlando, as the industry's leader, is to brand, market and sell the area globally as a premier leisure, convention and business destination to generate positive economic impact.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Curating the world for all children to explore
Central florida vocal arts and opera del sol exist to create a better central florida community through arts education, performance and appreciation. we strive to create equitable access to meaningful arts experiences for all people in our…
To provide educational programming services.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 114 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHARLES HOSMER MORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WELBOURNE AVENUE NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WINTER PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Winter Park Historical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELEVATION SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Florida Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · The Galloway Foundation · James P Caruso & Christine S Caruso Charitable Fund Inc · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Anderson-Devitt Foundation Inc · Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Inc · The Elinor and Tw Miller Jr Foundation Inc · The Warren and Augusta Hume Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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