· Private foundation
Morency Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Morency Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Quad Cities Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GREAT RIVER BEND | $60,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HENRY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| LECLAIRE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| BIRDIES FOR CHARITY | $4,000 |
| JUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS | $4,000 |
| WILDWOOD HILLS RANCH | $4,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MARITIME HERITAGE ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
To bring people together and inspire creativity through the power of art
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
It is the mission of scouting america, greater hudson valley council, inc. to deliver the highest-quality, values-based youth program of character development and leadership training, based upon the precepts embodied in the scout oath and…
Provide a content-rich education that stimulates the mind, feeds the hunger for learning, and nourishes the heart through a fully integrated liberal arts and sciences curriculum that includes instruction in moral character and civic virtue.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
The omaha zoological society's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Henry County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Henry County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds JUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS ABUNDANT LIFE RANCHERS ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maritime Heritage Alliance ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Morency Family 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.