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John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNGER COALITION OF BLAINE COUNTY IDAHO$5,000
SILVER CREEEK ALLIANCE$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%LAKE BURTIN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $500 → 7%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

ID
MN
CA
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

John and Cherie Morris Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 21 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
33

Total granted

$171k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +116%
  • SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +89%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • A
    ARCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • V
    VCESF
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
6
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
California Association for Research in Astronomy

To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…

Science & Tech
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Unlocking the secrets of life itself is the driving force behind the salk institute. our team of world-class, award-winning scientists pushes boundaries of knowledge in areas such as neuroscience, cancer research, aging, immunobiology,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE ADVOCATES: $10,000 · OtherTHE ADVOCATESARCH: $10,000 · OtherARCHVCESF: $6,000 · OtherHUNGER COALITION OF BLAINE COUNTY IDAHO: $5,000 · OtherUCSD - CANCER CENTER RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 · OtherGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $5,000 · OtherGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,680 · OtherDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Other+28 more: $44,205 · Other+28 moreGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $16,900 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENC…GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $13,750 · EducationGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIA…+3 more: $1,700 · EducationLIVING DESERT THE: $12,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DE…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVAT…SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5,000 · EnvironmentSAWTOOTH …Eisenhower Medical Center: $12,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $1,000 · HealthANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $11,000 · AnimalsBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,250 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionNational Film Preservation Foundation: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $2,680 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $2,250 · Arts & CultureBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $1,200 · Arts & Culture
Other$131,885Education$70,850Environment$22,000Health$18,000Animals$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,750Arts & Culture$10,630

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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Founda…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Cherie Morris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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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