Kansas · Private foundation
Mark & Bette Morris 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $2.0M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $2.4M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $2.3M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $2.2M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Animal Foundation | $4,882,500 | 5 | 12% |
| Kansas Childrens Service League | $2,070,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc | $1,125,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc | $424,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Oak Hill School | $337,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Gow School | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| United Methodist Homes Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $167,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Sent Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Capper Foundation | $141,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Topeka Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Schwartz Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000 Co Wilmington Trust Company · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Redbud Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation with peer funders
About Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation
- How much does Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation give?
- Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $2,315,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (43%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Morris Animal Foundation ($4.9M), Kansas Childrens Service League ($2.1M), Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust.
- Where is Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation based?
- Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation is based in KS.
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