Georgia · Private foundation
Morgens West 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.
- $857k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Morgens West Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $856k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $706k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $761k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $501k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $664k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation In | $305,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Birds Georgia Corporation | $227,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Atlanta Police Foundation Inc | $161,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Atlanta Beltline Partnership Inc | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Park Pride Inc | $113,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $107,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Fcs Urban Ministries Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morgens West Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Morgens West Foundation
- How much does Morgens West Foundation give?
- Morgens West Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $856,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Morgens West Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (14%), Animals (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Morgens West Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation In ($305k), Birds Georgia Corporation ($227k), Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ($220k).
- Does Morgens West Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morgens West Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morgens West Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Morgens West Foundation based?
- Morgens West Foundation is based in GA.
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