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Laurie and Reed Morian 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$775k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Science & Tech$3.4MArts & Culture$953kRecreation & Sports$534kEnvironment$301kEducation$162kHealth$82kAnimals$80kHuman Services$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$152M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$775,000
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$295,000
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO$115,000
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$50,000
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY$30,000
THE PEREGRINE FUND$25,000
CITY BALLET OF HOUSTON$20,000
ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY$10,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER AND INSTITUTE$10,000
CORRIDOR RESCUE$5,000
TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$5,000
SAN JACINTO MUSEUM AND BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION$5,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$5,000
LIFEHOUSE$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARMS OF HOPE: $750 → 12%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $3k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $27k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
NY
IA
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Laurie and Reed Morian 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, 96% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Laurie and Reed Morian Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.5M · 25 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$5.5M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+32%

Still filing today

92%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    6× · 2019–2024 · $873k · revenue +33%
  • HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $453k · revenue +53%
  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $131k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • TH
    Texas Heart Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -51%
  • HC
    Harris County Hospital District Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -78%
  • BP
    BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
3
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
4
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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5
Houston Zoo Inc

Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…

Animals
6
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
7
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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8
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
9
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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10
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
11
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is City Ballet of Houston. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr11%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr11%76%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
17%
8,708/51,948

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Houston Museum of Natural Science — $3,405,900 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural ScienceTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $872,680 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON+5 more — $70,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $453,440 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON L…+1 more — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL — $130,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherSt John's School — $15,000 · OtherTexas Heart Institute — $25,000 · Other+22 more — $111,850 · OtherPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $130,500 · EnvironmentTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $17,500 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic Garden — $7,500 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy — $6,000 · Environment+4 more — $9,500 · EnvironmentHouston Parks Board — $78,000 · PhilanthropySouth Texas Charity Weekend Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $62,500 · AnimalsBORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,000 · AnimalsCORRIDOR RESCUE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $45,124 · Human ServicesLife House — $25,000 · Human ServicesSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $750 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$4,348,580Recreation & Sports$456,440Other$441,850Environment$171,000Philanthropy$90,500Animals$79,500Human Services$73,374

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $3,405,900 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $872,680 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $453,440 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $130,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $78,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $62,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $45,124 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Heart Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife House — $25,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCITY BALLET OF HOUSTON — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Hospice — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Texas Charity Weekend Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCORRIDOR RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER OAKS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHCORPS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SPRING BRANCH FOOD PANTRY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGarden Club of Houston — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMS OF HOPE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationSterling-Turner Found…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Alvin & Lucy Owsley F…The John M O'Quinn Fo…The William Stamps Fa…Houston Endowment Inc
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX40.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment 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 Laurie and Reed Morian 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Laurie and Reed Morian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Laurie and Reed Morian Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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