· Private foundation
Michael B Morrow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWEZIMBE AFRICA INC | $22,500 |
| MYFRIENDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN OUTDOORS MINISTRY OF TEXAS INC | $6,500 |
| PARTNERS IN HOPE | $6,500 |
| MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES INC | $6,500 |
| STEAMBOAT TRAINING ADAPTIVE RECREATIONAL SPORTS | $5,500 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against +83% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TATWEZIMBE AFRICA7× · 2019–2025 · $169k · revenue +191%
- PDPASTORS DISCIPLESHIP NETWORK3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +118%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +320%
Funded once
- HFHCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HAHOUSTON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +83%
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.
Lone star legal aid's ("lsla") mission is to protect and advance the civil legal rights of the millions of texans living in poverty by providing free advocacy, legal representation, and community education that ensures equal access to…
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
Christian organization serving under-resourced families including single parents, refugees, and immigrants by providing spiritual and financial assistance.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Meet the short-term needs of people in crisis situations by providing immediate help in the form of food & financial assistance. Long-term assistance may also be provided.
Ctga is a partnership of pastors and churches seeking to demonstrate and communicate the love of god to the people of greater austin by ensuring that every man, woman, and child has repeated opportunities to see, hear, and respond to the…
Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…
God's Pantry exists to extend a helping hand, to the needy, by providing food to anyone who is facing circumstances beyond their control. The pantry serves all people, with respect and compassion, allowing them to maintain their…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Ensure equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income communities by providing high-quality legal representation, strategic litigation, valuable legal advice, and meaningful collaborations, outreach, and community education.
To send out followers of jesus to participate in god's mission in the world. we are committed to inviting people to follow jesus, social justice and establishing worshipping communities among unreached and least-reached peoples throughout…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 TWEZIMBE AFRICA ↗
- Who funds PASTORS DISCIPLESHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN OUTDOORS MINISTRY OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
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.
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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 Michael B Morrow Foundation 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.
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