· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $803k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Topeka Zoo | $1,100,000 |
| Kansas Children's Service League | $300,000 |
| Kansas Children's Discovery Center | $205,000 |
| YWCA of NE KS | $200,000 |
| Greater Kansas City Community Found | $200,000 |
| Oregon Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| First United Methodist Church | $98,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Stormont Vail Hospital Foundation | $30,000 |
| CASA of Shawnee County | $20,000 |
| Street Dog Coalition | $15,000 |
| KU Endowment Association | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
41 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $4.9M · revenue +73%
- KCKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +43%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC2× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +158%
Funded once
- TGTHE GOW SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $220k
- UMUNITED METHODIST HOMES INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -46%
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.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
To promote inspired benevolence in accordance with the teachings of christian science.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Unatti 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 42 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 94 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
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.
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds SENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Mark & Bette Morris Family 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.
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% 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.