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Morel Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$7.1MHuman Services$4.4MEducation$4.3MScience & Tech$3.2MArts & Culture$947kReligion$350kPhilanthropy$193kYouth Development$154kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $835k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$8,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$440,000
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$400,000
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$330,000
FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER$300,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$210,000
FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$175,000
RIVER CROSSING YMCA$150,000
JEFFERSON HEALTH$150,000
CHARITY WATER$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$50,000
FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$10,000
CAMP VICTORY$8,500
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS$8,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$6,035
COUNTY THEATRE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $30k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%CHARITY WATER: $100k → 4%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $15k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $15k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $15k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $5k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 4%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%INGLIS HOUSE: $1k → 22%AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $150k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $125k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 63 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
32

Total granted

$21M
$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+24%

Still filing today

67%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +96% · 25% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +31%
  • TM
    Travis Manion Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • NF
    NCCN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • JR
    JACK REID FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SA
    ST ANTHONY SCHOOL PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
5
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
8
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation

To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Valley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 101 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
37/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $1,872,950 · OtherFOX CHASE CANCER CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $905,455 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAYMCA OF BUCKS COUNTY: $775,000 · OtherYMCA OF BUCKS COUNTYOur Lady of Guadalupe: $188,000 · Other+57 more: $1,547,652 · Other+57 moreDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,143,820 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATI…JEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $500,000 · HealthJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATI…+7 more: $287,500 · Health+7 moreTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $3,219,460 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITU…FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE RAILROAD …+5 more: $171,560 · Arts & CultureCornell University: $1,541,380 · EducationCornell Universit…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $846,500 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGETHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $700,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON …+7 more: $212,221 · Education+7 moreTravis Manion Foundation: $3,017,400 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Fo…+2 more: $98,500 · PhilanthropyRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $275,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $70,000 · Human ServicesFishermans Mark: $52,000 · Human Services+5 more: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $153,500 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Equestrians Inc: $106,800 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,289,057Health$4,931,320Arts & Culture$3,816,020Education$3,300,101Philanthropy$3,115,900Human Services$514,000Recreation & Sports$260,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,143,820 over 5y, 25% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $3,219,460 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $3,017,400 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetCornell University: $1,541,380 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $846,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $500,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $425,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $275,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $153,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc: $106,800 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC: $99,500 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $88,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $71,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFishermans Mark: $52,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNCCN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJACK REID FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHRISTOPHER M FUGA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 7y, 38% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMATTHEW RENK FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $42,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $27,721 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $19,060 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS BEAUTIFUL INC: $12,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetI CARE I CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPhilabundance: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE4CAM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds NO BARRIERS USA ↗
  • Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
  • Who funds LENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds 13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
  • Who funds NCCN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACK REID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRISTOPHER M FUGA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW RENK FOUNDATION ↗

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 Philadelphia Foun…Foundations Community…Penn Community Bank F…The Marvin and Dee Wo…The Cigna Group Found…Frank R Goodman Famil…Albert W Bader Founda…Bucks County Conferen…The Robert Wood Johns…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Byers FoundationThe Haley Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA24.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Frank R Goodman Family Foundation · Albert W Bader Foundation Inc · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Byers Foundation · The Haley 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 101 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home