· Private foundation
Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TISCH BRAIN TUMOR CENTER - DUKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RUMPLE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| TRINITY AME ZION CHURCH | $3,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS | $2,000 |
| WTDD 885 NPR RADIO | $2,000 |
| WESTOVER CHURCH | $2,000 |
| PIEDMONT WILDLIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $54k · revenue +49%- ETEDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +25%
- NANEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +106%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.
To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Ridge Fire and Rescue Company Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR WILD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT 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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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