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· Private foundation
MELVIN AND ROMONA MORRIS FAMILY
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$43k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
3
Communities
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Civil Rights$76kHuman Services$63kHousing & Shelter$28kHealth$26kYouth Development$5kEducation$5kInternational$3kOther$102k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
cancer
2021
cancer
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$859k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MABLEAN EPHRIAM FOUNDATION$11,000
- SOUTHERN FOUNDATOIN$11,000
- YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT$10,500
- EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$257k · 10 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +134% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
12
Total granted
$257k
$49k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+134%
+2%
Still filing today
60%
42%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +92%- MEMABLEAN EPHRIAM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +41%
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +270%
Funded once
- BBBEST BUDDIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- DODREAMING OUT LOUDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1156%
- HAHAV A SOLEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +7932%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Us Africa Institute
U.S. Africa Institute?s primary exempt purpose is to support immigrant students and communities by offering a wide range of academic and community services at no cost. These services aim to enhance educational opportunities, promote social…
Community Improvement
2
Enterprise for Youth
Engage & empower sf youth on a path to economic independence through training and internships.
Youth Development
3
Black Skeptics Los Angeles
Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) is a South Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting and supporting Black and BIPOC secular communities and individuals, with an emphasis on providing educational programming, arts education,…
Civil Rights
4
First Generation Scholarship Fund
The First Generation Scholarship Fund aims to provide first-generation community college transfer students with expert mentors, life-changing internships, and financial assistance to enable them to earn their bachelor's degree, in two…
Education
5
Youth Leadership Institute
Founded in 1991, Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) has sparked the leadership of 90,000 young people to solve pressing social issues and serve communities. YLI implements community-based programs throughout California in the counties of…
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6
California School-Age Consortium Inc
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
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7
Plug in South Los Angeles
Our mission is to enable and empower talented early-stage founders and entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities in and around Los Angeles and beyond.
Human Services
8
La Forward Institute
Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.
Civil Rights
9
APIs Mobilize
APIs Mobilize seeks to cultivate greater participation of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in public service through educational opportunities.
Youth Development
10
California African American Water
Educate the African American population about the important water issues impacting their communities.
Education
11
The Heal Los Angeles Foundation
To improve the lives of young people in greater los angeles by creating impactful programs that will help them pursue their dreams while building fundamental life skills.
Education
12
School of Unity and Liberation
SOUL works for a strong social justice movement by developing a new generation of young organizers.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mablean Ephriam Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$101,827Civil Rights$75,820Human Services$63,000Housing & Shelter$27,500Health$25,500Youth Development$5,000Education$5,000International$3,000
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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MABLEAN EPHRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds HAV A SOLE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE NILES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation MELVIN AND ROMONA MORRIS FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 954832401 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Melvin and Romona Morris Family?
Find your warmest path to Melvin and Romona Morris Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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