Michigan · Private foundation
Morley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Morley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $192k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $163k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $190k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $191k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $210k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $192k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $190k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $224k | 45% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Templearts | $152,600 | 8 | 3% |
| Public Libraries of Saginaw | $80,360 | 5 | n/a |
| Major Chords for Minors | $61,700 | 9 | 11% |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $36,700 | 4 | 2% |
| Friends of Hoyt Park | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Saginaw Bay Community Sailing Association | $23,500 | 5 | 20% |
| Pride in Saginaw Inc | $22,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Saginaw Choral Society Inc | $21,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $20,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Racquet Sports Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($869k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morley 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: 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
How this is measured
About Morley Foundation
- How much does Morley Foundation give?
- Morley Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $203,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Morley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Morley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Templearts ($153k), Public Libraries of Saginaw ($80k), Major Chords for Minors ($62k).
- Does Morley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saginaw Community Foundation, Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation, Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Morley Foundation based?
- Morley Foundation is based in MI.
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