California · Private foundation
Morley Builders 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.
- $119k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Morley Builders Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $119k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $18k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $22k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $23k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $16k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Women's Center | $29,150 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Fire Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reach Center | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Tyler Skaggs Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Santa Monica Symphony Association | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| El Nido Family Centers | $2,250 | 4 | 0% |
| A Window Between Worlds | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morley Builders 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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Morley Builders Foundation
- How much does Morley Builders Foundation give?
- Morley Builders Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $118,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Morley Builders Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (27%), Youth Development (17%), Health (8%).
- Who are Morley Builders Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Downtown Women's Center ($29k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($8k), Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment ($4k).
- Does Morley Builders Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morley Builders 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 Morley Builders Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Morley Builders Foundation based?
- Morley Builders Foundation is based in CA.
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