· Private foundation
Morley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern Michigan Childress Assn | $25,000 |
| Hidden Harvest | $20,000 |
| Delta College Broadcasting | $18,200 |
| Saginaw Bay Community Sailing Assoc | $15,000 |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $14,000 |
| Baysail | $10,000 |
| Saginaw Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| Saginaw Art Museum | $10,000 |
| YMCA of Saginaw | $6,000 |
| North Central Michigan College | $5,500 |
| CAN Council of Saginaw | $5,200 |
| READ Association of Saginaw | $5,000 |
| Underground Railroad | $5,000 |
| Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra | $5,000 |
| YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
103 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTEMPLEARTS8× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +385%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · 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 -26%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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.
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.…
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 promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
How this is measured
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 206 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BAY COMMUNITY SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRIDE IN SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds PIT & BALCONY INC ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BAY SAIL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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