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Margaret T Morris Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
112
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $954k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $604k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Phoenix Art Museum$50,000
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University$50,000
Phoenix Zoo$50,000
The University of Arizona Foundation$50,000
St Mary's Food Bank$50,000
Highlands Center for Natural History$45,000
Sharlot Hall Museum$35,000
Verde Valley Community Development Organization$32,500
James Family Prescott YMCA$30,000
Great Hearts Scottsdale Preparatory Academy$30,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Northland Hospice: $100k → 16%Easterseals Blake Foundation: $20k → 15%Northland Hospice: $5k → 16%Easterseals Blake Foundation: $6k → 15%Northland Hospice: $5k → 16%Circle the City: $25k → 11%Circle the City: $20k → 11%Circle the City: $20k → 11%Circle the City: $10k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $10k → 11%Arizona Autism United: $10k → 11%Prescott Free Clinic: $10k → 14%Arizona Autism United: $10k → 11%Prescott Free Clinic: $8k → 14%Arizona Autism United: $5k → 11%Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County: $105k → 14%Agape House of Prescott: $25k → 14%Agape House of Prescott: $25k → 14%Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $100k → 11%Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $55k → 11%Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $50k → 11%Prescott Meals on Wheels: $15k → 14%Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County: $10k → 14%Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $10k → 11%Prescott Meals on Wheels: $5k → 14%Arizonans for Children Inc: $10k → 11%Arizonans for Children Inc: $5k → 11%Arizonans for Children Inc: $5k → 11%Arizonans for Children Inc: $5k → 11%Arizona's Children Association: $5k → 11%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 109 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
66

Total granted

$5.6M
$925k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+34%

Still filing today

72%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +54%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $153k · revenue +32%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AC
    Arizona Community Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • TN
    The Nash Jazz in Arizona Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +99%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

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…

Civil Rights
3
Pro-Choice Arizona

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…

Health
4
The Dons of Arizona
Education
5
Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.

Health
6
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
7
Compass Training Center Az
Education
8
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
9
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

—
10
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
11
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation
—
12
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf; 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.
04the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 204 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/112
Grantees still filing
60/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salk Institute: $245,000 · OtherSalk InstituteArizona State University Foundation Gammage: $235,000 · OtherArizona State University Foundation GammageJames Family Prescott YMCA: $130,000 · Other+122 more: $2,879,942 · Other+122 moreArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $215,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friend…Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County (0189): $115,000 · Human ServicesPrescott YMCA …NORTHLAND HOSPICE: $110,000 · Human ServicesNORTHLAND HOSP…CIRCLE THE CITY: $75,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CIT…Yavapai Food Bank Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesYavapai Food B…YAVAPAI CASA FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesYAVAPAI CASA F…AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAGAPE HOUSE OF…DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC: $35,000 · Human Services+6 more: $101,000 · Human Services+6 moreYAVAPAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $257,423 · EducationYAVAPAI COLL…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $190,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE…University of Arizona Foundation: $150,000 · EducationUniversity o…Prescott Unified School District Education Found: $50,000 · EducationPrescott Uni…YAVAPAI COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Education+7 more: $63,500 · Education+7 moreRelease The Fear Inc: $110,000 · Arts & CultureRelease The…PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART…THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $51,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX…SHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSHARLOT HAL…Arizona Citizens for the Arts: $45,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Cit…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S …CALA Alliance: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCALA Allian…PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SYM…DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE THEAT…Arizona Theatre Company: $37,500 · Arts & CultureArizona The…ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDSPLAY INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $86,500 · Arts & Culture+8 moreWEST YAVAPAI GUIDANCE CLINIC INC: $184,500 · HealthWEST YAVA…Banner Health Foundation: $50,000 · HealthBanner He…A NEW LEAF: $50,000 · HealthA NEW LEA…FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $40,000 · HealthFOUNDATIO…CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: $38,600 · HealthCHILDREN'…CAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE: $35,000 · HealthCAMP NOT-…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthHORSES WITH HEART INC: $25,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $25,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 · HealthNORTHLAND CARES: $24,000 · Health+4 more: $35,000 · Health+4 moreST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $152,500 · Food & NutritionSEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $59,000 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $33,000 · Food & NutritionPRESCOTT FARMERS MARKET INC: $32,500 · Food & NutritionPRESCOTT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionYAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $77,325 · Youth DevelopmentThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $61,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $7,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,489,942Human Services$851,000Education$739,923Arts & Culture$700,000Health$557,100Food & Nutrition$287,000Youth Development$215,825

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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
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 YAVAPAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST YAVAPAI GUIDANCE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County (0189) ↗
  • Who funds Release The Fear Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VERDE VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds YAVAPAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds RESURGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR COMPASSION & JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE WHO CARE ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds The Launch Pad Teen Center ↗
  • Who funds SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Yavapai Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Jw Kieckhefer Foundat…Burton Family Foundat…Virginia G Piper Char…The Diane and Bruce H…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Foundation for Co…The Kemper & Ethel Ma…Desert Financial Cred…John F Long Foundatio…Jewish Community Foun…Perry and Sandy Massi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report 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.
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How do I get to Margaret T Morris Foundation?

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.

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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