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Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.0M
Granted FY2017
23
Grants FY2017
22
Organizations funded FY2017
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72% of Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation’s FY2017 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2017
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$6,507,408
States reached, FY2017
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Hamlin School$1,023,20014%
University of San Francisco$875,00010%
The Trustees of Princeton University$250,00010%
Town School for Boys$181,66611%
Tipping Point Community$102,35310%
Kipp Bay Area Schools$22,50010%
Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart)$10,0001n/a
The Posse Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Mission Dolores Academy$10,0001n/a
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute$5,00010%
Immaculate Conception Academy$5,0001n/a
Bay Area Discovery Museum$1,00010%
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership$1,00010%
Family House Inc$1,00010%
Hamilton Families$1,0001n/a
California Highway Patrol$1,0001n/a
San Francisco CASA$1,00010%
University High School$8751n/a
California Academy of Sciences$82810%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Hamlin School: $1,023,200 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $875,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown School for Boys: $181,666 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTipping Point Community: $102,353 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKipp Bay Area Schools: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Posse Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBay Area Discovery Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco CASA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $828 over 1y, 0.0% 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 13.

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 San Francisco FoundationCA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Wendell Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · The Stanley S Langendorf 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 Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation

How much does Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation give?
Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $9,016,530 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (27%), International (1%).
Who are Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: The Hamlin School ($1.0M), University of San Francisco ($875k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($250k).
Does Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation 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 Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation based?
Mason and Anna Morfit Foundation is based in CA.

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 23 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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