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John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$9k75%
FY20248$40k75%
FY20237$27k57%
FY20227$12k43%
FY202110$27k30%
FY202013$29k31%
FY201910$21k40%
FY201814$38k71%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$56kHealth$45kArts & Culture$35kEnvironment$28kRecreation & Sports$21kAnimals$18kFood & Nutrition$16kReligion$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
CA
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Writers' Conference Inc: $16,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Tech Athletic Association Inc: $13,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Desert The: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlaine County Hunger Coalition Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGolf Fore Africa Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Tech Alumni Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSawtooth Botanical Garden: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $2,680 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Creek Alliance Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil of American Overseas Research Centers: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Sun Valley Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPalm Springs Air Museum Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood in Need of Distribution Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Burton Civic Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe McCallie School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaret School Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Spur Community Foundation IncID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation

How much does John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation give?
John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $8,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($39k), Sun Valley Writers' Conference Inc ($17k), Georgia Tech Athletic Association Inc ($14k).
Does John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John and Cherie Morris Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation based?
John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation is based in ID.

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 60 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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