· Private foundation
Morley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Temple Arts | $31,600 |
| Northern Michigan Childress Assn | $25,000 |
| Delta College Broadcasting | $18,200 |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $7,500 |
| YMCA of Saginaw | $6,000 |
| Urban Tennis Foundation | $5,000 |
| Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Major Chords for Minors | $5,000 |
| Kirtland Community College Foundation | $5,000 |
| PartnerShift Network | $5,000 |
| CAN Council of Saginaw | $5,000 |
| YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region | $5,000 |
| PRIDE in Saginaw Inc | $4,000 |
| University of Michigan School of Dentistry | $4,000 |
| Saginaw Choral Society | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTEMPLEARTS7× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +385%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +25%
- FOFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- SPSAGINAW PUBLIC LIBRARIESone grant, 2023 · $20k
- SCSAGINAW COVENANT ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $11k
- HCHOLY CROSS SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Work Skills Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 188 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRIDE IN SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PIT & BALCONY INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Boutell Memorial Fund · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation
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 Morley 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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.