· Private foundation
Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEDICTINE MILITARY SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT'S ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| LOOP IT UP SAVANNAH | $10,000 |
| SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA | $10,000 |
| EMPLOYABILITY | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DOUBLE D FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MASSIE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $2,500 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- GHGeorgia Historical Society6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +121%
- LILOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +100%
- ASAtlanta Speech School Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- STSAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SCSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +49%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…
Junior achievement of greater south carolina (jagsc) is dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to thrive in a global economy. through innovative learning experiences, ja focuses on three core areas: financial literacy,…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
To nurture pride and facilitate and an understanding and awareness of the significance of gullah geechee history and culture within gullah geechee communities. to sustain and preserve land, language, and cultural assets within the coastal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Double D Foundation Inc. 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 52 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 56 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 Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds LOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DOUBLE D FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DAWNS DAUGHTER ↗
- Who funds THE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc · Bradley Foundation Inc · The Adler Family Foundation Inc · Southern States Educational Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · The Dunn 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 Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc 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.
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.