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Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc

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.

$128k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,500
Organizations funded a year
20 to 26
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$128k15%
FY202422$115k14%
FY202326$182k27%
FY202223$137k35%
FY202124$142k21%
FY202020$129k35%
FY201926$135kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$360kArts & Culture$234kPhilanthropy$62kCivil Rights$30kHealth$28kYouth Development$25kEmployment$18kReligion$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($405k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $92,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLoop It Up Savannah Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetUnited Way of Coastal Georgia Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah Children's Choir Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSavannah Technical College Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Double D Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAtlanta Historical Society Inc: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah Music Festivalinc: $19,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor School: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTelfair Museum of Art Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEmployability Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSavannah Country Day School Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Savannah Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Conservancy Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Trust for Historic Preservation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDeep Center Incorporated: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDawns Daughter: $4,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetThe Coastal Heritage Society Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPace Academy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Cincinnati: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Savannah Book Festival Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Board of Bethesda Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc

How much does Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc give?
Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $127,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (28%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Georgia Historical Society ($93k), Loop It Up Savannah Inc ($75k), United Way of Coastal Georgia Inc ($70k).
Does Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc 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 Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Savannah Community Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, John G Kennedy Foundation Inc.
Where is Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc based?
Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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