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Morgan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$122kInternational$85kCivil Rights$40kPublic Benefit$35kPhilanthropy$30kReligion$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$225,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$20,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM$20,000
RAINBOW OF MAGNOLIA FOUNTAINS OF LIFE$15,000
THE AMALFI FOUNDATION$15,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$5,000
BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$5,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TURNING POINT USA: $10k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20k → 11%SACRAMENTO SELF HELP HOUSING: $50k → 12%GIVE TO LEARN TO GROW FUNDATION: $60k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20k → 14%THE HAUCK FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%AIMS FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $8k → 9%KITSAP DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10k → 10%PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $300k → 11%TURNING POINT USA: $10k → 11%SACRAMENTO SELF HELP HOUSING: $50k → 12%THE AMALFI FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR TALENTED YOUTH: $5k → 9%THE GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVACY: $20k → 10%PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%TURNING POINT USA: $10k → 11%SACRAMENTO SELF HELP HOUSING: $25k → 12%POMONA COLLEGE: $40k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR TALENTED YOUTH: $5k → 9%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $50k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $225k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $20k → 11%SACRAMENTO SELF HELP HOUSING: $25k → 12%POMONA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $20k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $225k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $10k → 11%POMONA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $17k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $125k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $5k → 11%POMONA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%KITSAP DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $15k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $5k → 11%POMONA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $60k → 11%POMONA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%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

WA
MI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +143% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentInternationalReligionOther
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

  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +637%
  • SS
    SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • BI
    Bainbridge Island Historical Society
    4× · 2019–2024 · $97k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • GT
    GIVE TO LEARN TO GROW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -17%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • GP
    GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +744%
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
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
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
12
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rainbow of Magnolia Fountains of Life. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,335,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONPOMONA COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationGIVE TO LEARN TO GROW FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationSACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC: $150,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO SELF-HELP…Bainbridge Island Historical Society: $97,250 · OtherBainbridge Island Hi…TURNING POINT USA INC: $30,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA IN…KITSAP DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherKITSAP DISCOVERY MUS…UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $17,500 · OtherAIMS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTHE AMALFI FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $27,500 · Other+3 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 · Civil RightsFamily Policy Institute of Washington: $4,500 · Civil RightsSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 · HealthRAINBOW OF MAGNOLIA FOUNTAINS OF LIFE: $25,000 · InternationalGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · EnvironmentPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · ReligionBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,540,000Other$377,250Civil Rights$44,500Health$40,000International$25,000Environment$20,000Religion$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,335,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBainbridge Island Historical Society: $97,250 over 4y, 12% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE TO LEARN TO GROW FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW OF MAGNOLIA FOUNTAINS OF LIFE: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Policy Institute of Washington: $4,500 over 3y, 0.7% 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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Morgan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morgan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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