· Private foundation
Morgan Stanley 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+8 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE NATIONAL | $908,500 |
| HISPANIC FEDERATION INC | $500,000 |
| BRAVEN INCORPORATED | $500,000 |
| SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY | $492,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $448,500 |
| IMENTOR INCORPORATED | $360,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE INC | $300,000 |
| AMERICA NEEDS YOU | $260,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $75,000 |
| NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $909k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HISPANIC FEDERATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +187%- SFSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +313%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +29%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $2.9M · revenue +23%- TJTHE JED FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +429%
- TOTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
372 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. 372 of the 499 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MORGAN STANLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · AT&T Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Pwc Foundation Inc · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ernst & Young Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morgan Stanley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morgan Stanley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc: 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Ballet School of Stamford: 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware: 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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