· Private foundation
Margaret T Morris Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $954k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $604k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arizona State University Foundation Gammage | $100,000 |
| Salk Institute | $85,000 |
| Polara Health | $60,000 |
| Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation | $55,000 |
| Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance | $54,000 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | $50,000 |
| Phoenix Art Museum | $50,000 |
| The University of Arizona Foundation | $50,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Phoenix Zoo | $50,000 |
| Highlands Center for Natural History | $45,000 |
| Sharlot Hall Museum | $35,000 |
| Verde Valley Community Development Organization | $32,500 |
| Great Hearts Scottsdale Preparatory Academy | $30,000 |
| James Family Prescott YMCA | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
109 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +54%
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE4× · 2022–2025 · $153k · revenue +32%
University of Arizona Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ACArizona Community Foundationone grant, 2020 · $60k
- TNThe Nash Jazz in Arizona Incone grant, 2024 · $50k
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Central AZone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Yavapai County Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 204 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County (0189) ↗
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- Who funds NORTHLAND HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Margaret T Morris Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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