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Juniper Tree Foundation Fka Morelock 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.

$415k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$1.3MReligion$424kHuman Services$387kHealth$142kEducation$127kPhilanthropy$64kRecreation & Sports$33kArts & Culture$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $216k
$2,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BACK 2 BACK MINISTRIES$215,876
SAMI SUNSHINE FOUNDATION$31,200
Individual grant recipient$26,761
LIFE FORWARD$15,640
WEST CHESTER CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$15,000
CARE CENTER$13,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SOUL WINNERS FOR CHRIST$7,000
ELIM FELLOWSHIP$6,500
SALVATION ARMY$5,500
NEW GENERATIONS$5,000
KINGDOM INITIATIVE$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$5,000
BRIDGE THE GAP URBAN OUTREACH$4,380
MASON PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 12%THE MOBILITYWORKS FOUNDATION: $14k → 13%SENDING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 15%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $10k → 6%SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME: $100 → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%CARE CENTER: $13k → 9%CARE CENTER: $12k → 9%CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%CARE CENTER: $5k → 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100 → 14%ONE CITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $18k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $17k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $12k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $9k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $6k → 6%MOMS HOPE: $4k → 6%STEPPING STONE: $300 → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $2k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $1k → 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

ID
IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 68 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
60

Total granted

$2.4M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+4%

Still filing today

40%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • Back 2 Back Ministries Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +21%
  • LF
    LIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $124k · revenue +63%
  • MI
    MOMSHOPE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSSROADS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
  • BT
    BRIDGE TO MOBILITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue ×95
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.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
3
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Every Nation Cincinnati Church

The church's mission is to engage individuals with the gospel, to establish them in their faith in jesus christ, to equip them to do the work of the ministry, and to empower them to make disciples.

Religion
6
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
7
Explore God Network
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Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
9
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
10
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
11
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
12
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Serve Inc; the most unlike its peers is Springs 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

60 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. 60 of the 145 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Back 2 Back Ministries Inc: $1,259,447 · ReligionBack 2 Back Ministries IncBURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · Religion+14 more: $37,031 · ReligionTHE SALVATION ARMY: $97,736 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $86,715 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYWEST CHESTER CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $82,051 · OtherWEST CHESTER CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEPentescostal Childrens Home Inc: $42,388 · OtherSAMI SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $32,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,323 · OtherSOUL WINNERS FOR CHRIST: $30,000 · OtherTHE ARRINGTON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+95 more: $416,125 · Other+95 moreMOMSHOPE INC: $65,870 · Human ServicesCARE CENTER OF LOVELAND: $40,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE TO MOBILITY: $13,600 · Human ServicesChristian Alliance for Orphans: $10,000 · Human ServicesEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $6,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5,700 · Human Services+6 more: $10,400 · Human ServicesLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $124,285 · HealthONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $13,000 · Health+3 more: $3,150 · HealthCITYLINK CENTER: $77,500 · Community ImprovementCARING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $19,000 · InternationalThe Bucket Ministry: $2,000 · InternationalCARING RESPONSE MADAGASCAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · International+2 more: $1,000 · InternationalALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $5,300 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $50 · Civil Rights
Religion$1,346,478Other$847,538Human Services$151,570Health$140,435Community Improvement$77,500International$23,000Civil Rights$5,850

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 budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $1,259,447 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $124,285 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCITYLINK CENTER: $77,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMOMSHOPE INC: $65,870 over 6y, 14% of budgetBURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPentescostal Childrens Home Inc: $42,388 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCARE CENTER OF LOVELAND: $40,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetCARING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSweeten Life Systems: $15,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $13,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREENVIEW BIBLE CAMP CORPORATION: $11,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $5,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GENERATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SERVE INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $4,032 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIgnite the Ville Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bucket Ministry: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURE LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARS HILL MINISTRIES INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $1,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUBREY ROSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARING RESPONSE MADAGASCAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHANGING HEARTS AND DESTINY MINISTRYINC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out Pregnancy Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Prayer Covenant Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENDING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercury One Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $100 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.

  • Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOMSHOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Pentescostal Childrens Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARE CENTER OF LOVELAND ↗
  • Who funds CARING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Sweeten Life Systems ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE TO MOBILITY ↗
  • Who funds ONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENVIEW BIBLE CAMP CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
  • Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL 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.

Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH36.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Hatton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Servant Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Serving Your Purpose Inc · Farmer Family Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Maas Family Foundation · Unnewehr Family 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 Juniper Tree Foundation Fka Morelock Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Juniper Tree Foundation Fka Morelock Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Juniper Tree Foundation Fka Morelock 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 145 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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