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John C and Eunice B Morrison Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John C and Eunice B Morrison Charitable 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.

$605k
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$770kHuman Services$710kHealth$388kHousing & Shelter$315kEducation$140kPhilanthropy$120kYouth Development$115kReligion$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $275k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $330k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
My Brother's Keeper$25,000
Lower Cape Outreach Program$20,000
Cape Cod Foundation$20,000
NVNA and Hospice - Pat Roche Hospice Home$15,000
Family Pantry of Cape Cod$15,000
Food for the Poor$15,000
Greater Boston Food Bank$12,500
Loaves and Fishes$12,500
Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc$12,500
Year Up$12,500
Boys and Girls' Club of Dorchester$10,000
Camp Fatima$10,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern NE$10,000
City of St Jude$10,000
Salvation Army$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%My Brother's Keeper: $25k → 11%Home for Little Wanderers: $15k → 16%My Brother's Keeper: $25k → 11%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%My Brother's Keeper: $25k → 11%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%My Brother's Keeper: $25k → 11%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%Fidelity House: $5k → 8%My Brother's Keeper: $20k → 11%Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%Interfaith Social Services: $15k → 7%Our Neighbor's Table: $3k → 10%Interfaith Social Services: $15k → 7%Interfaith Social Services: $10k → 7%Metrowest YMCA: $5k → 8%Interfaith Social Services: $10k → 7%Metrowest YMCA: $5k → 8%Metrowest YMCA: $5k → 8%South Shore YMCA: $10k → 7%Stone Family Adoption Assistance Fund: $3k → 8%Friendship Home: $8k → 8%Friendship Home: $8k → 8%Friendship Home: $8k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $15k → 16%Friendship Home: $8k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $15k → 16%Friendship Home: $8k → 8%Greater Lowell YMCA: $5k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%South Shore YMCA: $5k → 7%South Shore YMCA: $5k → 7%Interfaith Social Services: $5k → 7%South Shore YMCA: $5k → 7%South Shore YMCA: $5k → 7%Westford Remembers: $8k → 8%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: $3k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $5k → 16%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

NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 86 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
27

Total granted

$2.8M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

44%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MB
    My Brothers Keeper Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +63%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +1%
  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • LL
    LittletonAyer Loaves and Fishes
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TR
    Travis Roy Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
2
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
4
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
5
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
6
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
7
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
8
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
9
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
10
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.

Human Services
11
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

—
12
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Baja Bound Ministries Fka National Youth Innovations Inc. 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

51 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. 51 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lower Cape Outreach Program: $102,500 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $77,500 · Other+79 more: $1,774,500 · Other+79 moreMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Ke…PINE STREET INN INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET IN…INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOC…FRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOM…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR L…South Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $30,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Yo…METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+8 more: $42,500 · Human Services+8 moreCape Cod Foundation Inc: $80,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $40,000 · EducationTHOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $35,000 · Food & NutritionMARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionARLINGTON EATS INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionROSIE'S PLACE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthSouth Shore Mental Health Center Inc: $35,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $22,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE BOSTON HOME INC: $15,000 · HealthSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTD: $10,000 · HealthSEE A NEW SUN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $60,000 · International
Other$1,954,500Human Services$395,000Education$187,500Food & Nutrition$170,000Housing & Shelter$170,000Health$152,500International$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FATIMA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Shore Mental Health Center Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER: $35,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CAMERON SENIOR CNTR: $27,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOSTON HOME INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetARLINGTON EATS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE COD MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEE A NEW SUN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestford Remembers Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBAJA BOUND MINISTRIES FKA NATIONAL YOUTH INNOVATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE JV FLETCHER LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FATIMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
  • Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds South Shore Mental Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Boston Foundation IncAmelia Peabody Charit…Rockland Trust - Blue…Rockland Trust Charit…Cambridge Savings Cha…Analog Devices Founda…The Flatley FoundationYawkey Foundation IIJoy In Childhood Foun…Cummings Foundation G…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA35.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)

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 C and Eunice B Morrison Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C and Eunice B Morrison Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Fidelity House Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Friendship Home Inc: 66% of income from government
  • South Shore Mental Health Center Inc: 46% of income from government
  • The Boston Home Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Manet Community Health Center Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Arlington Eats Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Marshfield Food Pantry Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Supportive Living Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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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Find your warmest path to John C and Eunice B Morrison Charitable 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 118 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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