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George Q Morris Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$131k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
20%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 20% of the organizations George Q Morris Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
AnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20215$131k20%
FY20204$66k25%
FY20195$78k0%
FY20187$2.1M29%
FY20177$140kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MAnimals$82kHealth$30kReligion$344Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Utah$1,152,0005n/a
The Salt Lake Film Society$607,000514%
Springville Museum of Art$510,00021%
Wildlife Sos$37,00041%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.

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About George Q Morris Foundation

How much does George Q Morris Foundation give?
George Q Morris Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $130,600 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does George Q Morris Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (47%), Animals (3%).
Who are George Q Morris Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: University of Utah ($1.2M), The Salt Lake Film Society ($607k), Springville Museum of Art ($510k).
Does George Q Morris Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George Q Morris Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is George Q Morris Foundation based?
George Q Morris Foundation is based in UT.

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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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