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Margaret T Morris Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
112
Grants FY2025
95
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
71 to 95
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Margaret T Morris Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $548k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving112$1.7M26%
FY202495$1.5M35%
FY202387$1.4M6%
FY202282$1.1M80%
FY202071$1.0Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$978kHealth$920kHuman Services$900kFood & Nutrition$472kYouth Development$470kHousing & Shelter$433kRecreation & Sports$327kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 117 grantees
All grantees of Margaret T Morris Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yavapai College Foundation Inc$257,42343%
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation$215,00042%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc$190,00050%
West Yavapai Guidance Clinic Inc$184,50040%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$152,50040%
University of Arizona Foundation$150,00030%
Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County (0189)$115,00022%
Release The Fear Inc$110,000241%
Northland Hospice$110,00037%
Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance$104,000218%
Phoenix Art Museum$100,00020%
Verde Valley Community Development Organization$97,500347%
Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona Inc$90,00024%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$80,50040%
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$77,32543%
Circle the City$75,00040%
Resurge International$72,50042%
Highlands Center for Natural History$72,50044%
Coalition for Compassion & Justice$70,00042%
People Who Care$67,79648%
Grand Canyon Conservancy$62,50040%
The Launch Pad Teen Center$61,00051%
Sedona Community Food Bank$59,000511%
Yavapai Food Bank Inc$55,00022%
The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary$51,00050%
Banner Health Foundation$50,00010%
Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc$50,00051%
Yavapai Casa for Kids Foundation$50,00042%
Prescott Unified School District Education Found$50,000411%
A New Leaf$50,00050%
Agape House of Prescott Inc$50,00022%
Sharlot Hall Historical Society of Az$45,00024%
Arizona Citizens for the Arts$45,00037%
Detour Company Theater Inc$45,000532%
St Joseph the Worker$45,00040%
Adult Center of Prescott$42,500230%
Verde Valley Sanctuary$42,00031%
Arizona Crisis Team Inc$40,00046%
Children's Museum of Phoenix$40,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Arizona$40,00041%
CALA Alliance$40,00046%
Phoenix Symphony Association$40,00020%
Foundation for Blind Children$40,00040%
Dance Theatre of Harlem Inc$40,00040%
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services$38,60040%
Arizona Theatre Company$37,50050%
Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc$37,50041%
Arizona Opera Company$35,00040%
Arizona Autism United Inc$35,00040%
Camp Not-A-Wheeze$35,000426%
Arizona Food Bank Network$33,00040%
Prescott Farmers Market Inc$32,50041%
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc$32,50040%
Childsplay Inc$30,00021%
Yavapai County Education Foundation$29,00043%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center$27,50041%
Easterseals Blake Foundation$26,00020%
Law Enforcement Heroes Incorporated$26,0002n/a
Prevent Child Abuse Arizona$26,00030%
Central Arizona Land Trust$25,00042%
Center for the Rights of Abused Children$25,00040%
Barrow Neurological Foundation$25,00010%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc$25,00010%
Horses With Heart Inc$25,00023%
Arizonans for Children Inc$25,00041%
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation$25,0001n/a
Prescott Meals on Wheels$25,00031%
Breakthrough T1d$25,00010%
Northland Cares$24,00040%
The School of Architecture$20,00021%
Act One$20,00041%
Flagstaff Shelter Services Inc$20,00040%
Yavapai Silent Witness Program Inc$18,000459%
Yavapai Family Advocacy Center$17,5001n/a
Yavapai Symphony Association Inc$17,50053%
Prescott Free Clinic Inc$17,500212%
Greathearts Arizona$17,50020%
Project Sleep Tight USA$17,5002n/a
Ballet Arizona$15,00020%
Arizona Golf and Life Skills Inc Dba First Tee - Phoenix$15,00011%
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum$15,00020%
Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering$13,50035%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc Dba Prescott Area Habitat for Humanity$12,50021%
Northern Jaguar Project$12,50041%
Yavapai County Sheriffs Response T$12,00027%
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona$10,00010%
Central Arts Alliance$10,00011%
Prescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc$10,00030%
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation$10,0001n/a
Arizona Jewish Historical Society$10,0001n/a
Yavapai Regional Medical Center Foundation$10,00010%
Arizona State Railroad Museum Foundation and Center for Education$10,000115%
PV Schools Education Foundation$10,00023%
Sunshine Rescue Mission$10,00011%
Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center$10,00020%
Rise Resource Center Inc$10,00011%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc$10,00010%
Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation$10,00011%
Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona$10,00010%
New Way Academy$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson Inc$7,50010%
Phoenix Film Foundation$7,00031%
The Museum of Indigenous People$6,00020%
Ican Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods$5,00010%
Wheel Fun$5,00011%
Arizona Philharmonic Inc$5,00012%
Arizona's Children Association$5,00010%
Laptops 4 Learning$5,000112%
St Josephs Youth Camp$5,0001n/a
New Pathways For Youth$5,00010%
Camp Catanese Foundation$5,00010%
Imagination Library of the Prescott Area$5,00018%
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation$5,00010%
Happy Futures Inc$4,5002n/a
Amplified Arizona$2,5001n/a
United States Veterans Initiative$2,50010%
Humboldt Education Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Margaret T Morris Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYavapai College Foundation Inc: $257,423 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $215,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWest Yavapai Guidance Clinic Inc: $184,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $152,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrescott YMCA of Yavapai County (0189): $115,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRelease The Fear Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetNorthland Hospice: $110,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPrescott Mountain Bike Alliance: $104,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPhoenix Art Museum: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVerde Valley Community Development Organization: $97,500 over 3y, 47% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Arizona Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $80,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc: $77,325 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCircle the City: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetResurge International: $72,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHighlands Center for Natural History: $72,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCoalition for Compassion & Justice: $70,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPeople Who Care: $67,796 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetGrand Canyon Conservancy: $62,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $61,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSedona Community Food Bank: $59,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetYavapai Food Bank Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary: $51,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYavapai Casa for Kids Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPrescott Unified School District Education Found: $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetA New Leaf: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAgape House of Prescott Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSharlot Hall Historical Society of Az: $45,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetArizona Citizens for the Arts: $45,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetDetour Company Theater Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAdult Center of Prescott: $42,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetVerde Valley Sanctuary: $42,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetArizona Crisis Team Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Phoenix: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Arizona: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCALA Alliance: $40,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetPhoenix Symphony Association: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Blind Children: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDance Theatre of Harlem Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services: $38,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPrescott Area Shelter Services Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetArizona Opera Company: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 107.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ112.5× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Jw Kieckhefer Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Desert Financial Credit Union · John F Long Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Perry and Sandy Massie 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.

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Find your warmest path to Margaret T Morris 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.

About Margaret T Morris Foundation

How much does Margaret T Morris Foundation give?
Margaret T Morris Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $1,747,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Margaret T Morris Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Education (12%), Health (11%).
Who are Margaret T Morris Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Yavapai College Foundation Inc ($257k), Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ($215k), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($190k).
Does Margaret T Morris Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret T Morris Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret T Morris Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Jw Kieckhefer Foundation, Burton Family Foundation.
Where is Margaret T Morris Foundation based?
Margaret T Morris Foundation is based in AZ.

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 204 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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