· Private foundation
Martin Salomon Morton and Gustel Schreiber Morton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $6,000 |
| ABOVE THE CLOUDS | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND COHEN EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $4,000 |
| THE BAKER CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $3,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS BOSTON | $3,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES | $3,000 |
| PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCATION CENTER OF IMMOKALEE INC | $3,000 |
| VILNA SHUL BOSTON CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC | $3,000 |
| BAKER SENIOR CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Martin Salomon Morton and Gustel Schreiber Morton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +44%
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +81%
- TVTHE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $3k
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +1%
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 advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Naples Community Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC ↗
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: Clayton F and Ruth L Hawkridge Foundat · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Martin Salomon Morton and Gustel Schreiber Morton 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Central Boston Elder Services Inc — 47% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% 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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