· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EMPOWER ALL INC | $17,500 |
| D3 COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $17,500 |
| RHODA | $17,500 |
| EAST DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE | $17,500 |
| CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO YMCA | $15,000 |
| RALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR | $15,000 |
| BOOK HARVEST | $15,000 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANO | $15,000 |
| ARTSPACE INC | $15,000 |
| DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BOOMERANG YOUTH | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Morgan Creek Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- MGMATHKIND GLOBALone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morgan Creek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morgan Creek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
How this is measured
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