· Private foundation
Melvin and Romona Morris Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MABLEAN EPHRIAM FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,500 |
| YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENRICHMENT | $10,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MEMablean Ephriam Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +46%
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +9%
- CCCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE3× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- HAHav A Soleone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +21%
- TNTHE NILES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -2%
- DODREAMING OUT LOUD INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +116%
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.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
MARI acts as a resource organization emphasizing the importance of our collective history through community education, and ultimately help eliminate racism and injustice.
Our mission is to enable and empower talented early-stage founders and entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities in and around Los Angeles and beyond.
Painting a different picture foundation is ending malnutrition in infants and children by creating sustainable equal employment opportunities for their prarents.
The State of Black Arizona leads the production, synthesis, and socialization of actionable data and insights for all Arizonans, focusing on the Black community. We ensure that the factors leading to inequitable outcomes are identified,…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
To provide low-income youth of color with the tools needed to complete Californias legal apprenticeship program and become attorneys
To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Mablean Ephriam Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CENTER FOR ACADEMIC & CULTURAL ENR ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Hav A Sole ↗
- Who funds THE NILES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin and Romona Morris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin and Romona Morris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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