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Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation at a glance

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Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.7MEducation$2.1MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$759kPhilanthropy$305kYouth Development$281kReligion$234kScience & Tech$173kOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $203k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $454k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION$225,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$110,000
COOL LEARNING EXPERIENCE$65,000
OPENLANDS$53,500
BRUSHWOOD CENTER OF RYERSON WOODS$47,500
CHICAGO VOYAGERS$45,000
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$37,500
RAGDALE FOUNDATION$37,500
MUDDY SNEAKERS$35,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$30,000
NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$29,000
WAYFINDERS$29,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$25,000
CAMP FOR ALL KIDS$25,000
LIBERTY PRAIRIE$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG: $1k → 9%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $100 → 14%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $5k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $2k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $1k → 8%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 99 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
80

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TP
    THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $705k · revenue +38%
  • R
    RARE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $556k · revenue +30%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $427k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Phoenix Pact Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +4%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    one grant, 2021 · $333k · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Lincoln Park Conservancy

The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…

Recreation & Sports
3
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
4
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
5
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
6
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
7
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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

150 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. 150 of the 203 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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/150
Grantees still filing
106/150
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - IRWIN STEANS CENTER: $1,069,999 · OtherDEPAUL UNIVERSITY - IRWIN STEANS CENTERRUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY: $666,667 · OtherRUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF PHILA…OPENLANDS: $302,250 · OtherOPENLANDSFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $205,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL: $118,757 · Other+100 more: $787,752 · Other+100 moreTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $705,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INCRARE: $555,500 · EnvironmentRARECHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $360,500 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETYBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $196,000 · EnvironmentBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOO…LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $125,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIAT…+32 more: $380,750 · Environment+32 moreThe Phoenix Pact Fund: $400,000 · EducationThe Phoenix …College of Lake County Foundation: $251,000 · EducationCollege of L…ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $75,000 · EducationADVANCE ILLI…COOL LEARNING EXPERIENCE: $65,000 · EducationCOOL LEARNIN…+15 more: $113,000 · Education+15 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $427,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FES…Ragdale Foundation: $219,000 · Arts & CultureRagdale Fou…DISCOVERY PLACE INC: $86,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY P…Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $28,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $55,250 · Arts & Culture+8 moreRush University Medical Center: $333,333 · Health+10 more: $27,500 · HealthTFK Chicago Voyagers: $126,000 · Youth DevelopmentR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $49,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp for All Kids: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF THE CITY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING POWER INC: $11,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $7,060 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $198,500 · PhilanthropyJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $13,500 · Philanthropy+5 more: $13,038 · Philanthropy
Other$3,350,425Environment$2,322,750Education$904,000Arts & Culture$815,750Health$360,833Youth Development$265,060Philanthropy$225,038

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $705,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetRARE: $555,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $427,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $360,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $333,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $302,250 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCollege of Lake County Foundation: $251,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $219,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $198,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $196,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetTFK Chicago Voyagers: $126,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTY PRAIRIE NFP: $97,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $86,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $75,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCOOL LEARNING EXPERIENCE: $65,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc: $62,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCleanAIRE NC: $56,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetR Bruce Irons Camp Fund: $49,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCamp for All Kids: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $43,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTreesCharlotte: $34,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLegacy Reentry Foundation NFP: $29,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $28,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $26,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $24,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $21,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $17,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $16,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGARDENEERS: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUNCH PROJECT: $10,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSeaLegacy Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Phoenix Pact Fund ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
  • Who funds College of Lake County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS ↗
  • Who funds TFK Chicago Voyagers ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY PRAIRIE NFP ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds COOL LEARNING EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Muddy Sneakers Inc ↗
  • Who funds CleanAIRE NC ↗
  • Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ↗
  • Who funds Camp for All Kids ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TreesCharlotte ↗
  • Who funds Legacy Reentry Foundation NFP ↗
  • Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff ↗
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗

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.

John and Kathleen Sch…The Lake County Commu…Hunter Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Gorter Family Fou…Northwestern Memorial…Clarks Fork FoundationHealthcare Foundation…The Grainger Foundati…Butler Family Foundat…Vivo FoundationJulian Grace Foundati…
John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber PhilanthropyIL48.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Lake County Community Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Gorter Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Clarks Fork Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Butler Family Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Julian Grace 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 Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
35report 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 Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family 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 203 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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