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Morency Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$116k
Granted FY2018
14
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

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.

01What it funds
01FY2018 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$809k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
LECLAIRE COMMUNITY LIBRARY$5,000
ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$5,000
JUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS$4,000
WILDWOOD HILLS RANCH$4,000
BIRDIES FOR CHARITY$4,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$3,500
MARITIME HERITAGE ALLIANCE$2,000
FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$2,000
KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE$1,000
UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILDWOOD HILLS RANCH: $4k → 7%KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE: $1k → 12%BIRDIES FOR CHARITY: $4k → 15%MARITIME HERITAGE ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $100 → 13%HENRY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $10k → 12%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 12%ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5k → 12%LECLAIRE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GREAT RIVER BEND: $60k → 12%FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%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.
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 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
Heckscher Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Hickory Museum of Art Inc

To bring people together and inspire creativity through the power of art

Arts & Culture
3
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Boy Scouts of America 388 Greater Hudson Valley Council

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…

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5
Heart of Ohio Classical Academy

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.

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6
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
7
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
8
The New American Academy Charter School

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…

Education
9
Dubuque Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Omaha Zoological Society

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.

Animals
11
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Scouting America Longhorn Council

Prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS B…ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentILLOWA COUNCIL…LECLAIRE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherLECLAIRE …BIRDIES FOR CHARITY: $4,000 · OtherBIRDIES F…KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE: $1,000 · OtherKINGS HAR…+1 more: $100 · OtherHenry County Humane Society: $10,000 · AnimalsHenry Cou…QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMaritime Heritage Alliance: $2,000 · Arts & CultureJUAN DIEZ RANCHEROS ABUNDANT LIFE RANCHERS: $4,000 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,500 · Education
Philanthropy$64,000Youth Development$15,000Other$10,100Animals$10,000Arts & Culture$9,000Human Services$4,000Education$3,500

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 budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHenry County Humane Society: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Quad Cities Community…Scott County Regional…Baird Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Morency Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morency Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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