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Morgan Creek 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 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 $10k14 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DURHAM LITERACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| MOREHEAD CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| RHODA | $17,500 |
| EMPOWER ALL INC | $17,500 |
| D3 COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $17,500 |
| EAST DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE | $17,500 |
| CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO YMCA | $15,000 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANO | $15,000 |
| DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| RALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR | $15,000 |
| BOOK HARVEST | $15,000 |
| ARTSPACE INC | $15,000 |
| BOOMERANG YOUTH | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Morgan Creek Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +7%- WCWEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +180%
- DPDURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN6× · 2017–2022 · $79k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INCone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +7%
ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -3%- FAFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
To provide strength-based support to durham schools to end the detrimental impact of out of school suspensions. we provide alternative programming that focuses on the inherent strengths and potential of each student to help them…
Operation of a public charter school.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
Operation of a public charter school.
Operation of a public charter school.
Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…
Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…
Support of member charter schools in north carolina
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Literacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empower All Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 87 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 DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Boomerang Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds D-3 COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Partners for Youth Opportunity ↗
- Who funds Empower All Inc ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DURHAM DREAMS YOUTH MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · The Grable Foundation · Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fish · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Morgan Creek 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.
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
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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