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Morlock 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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$29kHuman Services$14kHealth$14kInternational$12kEducation$7k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$228
Median grant
9
States reached
$334k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRU THE BIBLE RADIO NETWORK$1,073
BCABVI$228
CHRIST'S HOME$228
THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$228
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$228
PENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETY$228
BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC$228
BACK TO THE BIBLE$228
CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILA FDN$228
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$228
CARE USA$228
DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$228
THE SALVATION ARMY$228
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRIST'S HOME: $3k → 6%CHRIST'S HOME: $1k → 6%CHRIST'S HOME: $1k → 6%CHRIST'S HOME: $503 → 6%CHRIST'S HOME: $228 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 15 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
0

Total granted

$76k
$0

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TT
    Thru The Bible Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +1%
  • BU
    BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +19%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +12%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field

    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.

    1
    American Bible Society

    Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

    Religion
    2
    Christians for Biblical Equality

    See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

    —
    3
    Bibleproject

    Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

    Religion
    4
    American Bible Society
    —
    5
    The Bible Seminary

    To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.

    Education
    6
    Blue Letter Bible

    The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

    —
    7
    Amazing Facts International

    To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

    Religion
    8
    Biblica Inc

    To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.

    Religion
    9
    Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
    Philanthropy
    10
    The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

    The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

    Religion
    11
    Christian Educational Ministries

    To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…

    Religion
    12
    Worldwide Bible Society

    We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…

    Religion
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Back to the Bible; the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Bible Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    5/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $5,736 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INCBCABVI: $5,479 · OtherBCABVIBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $5,479 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,479 · OtherGIDEONS INTERNATIONALTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,349 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILA FDN: $3,085 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILA FDNCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,651 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $2,130 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYThru The Bible Inc: $7,169 · ReligionThru The Bible IncBACK TO THE BIBLE: $5,479 · ReligionBACK TO THE BIBLEPENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,479 · ReligionPENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETYBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $6,632 · EducationBIOLA UNI…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $6,632 · InternationalCOOPERATI…CHRISTS HOME: $5,479 · Human ServicesDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,479 · Health
    Other$33,388Religion$18,127Education$6,632International$6,632Human Services$5,479Health$5,479

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThru The Bible Inc: $7,169 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $6,632 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $6,632 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $5,736 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBACK TO THE BIBLE: $5,479 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTS HOME: $5,479 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,479 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,479 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
    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 Thru The Bible Inc ↗
    • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
    • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
    • Who funds BACK TO THE BIBLE ↗
    • Who funds CHRISTS HOME ↗
    • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
    • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Morlock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morlock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      2get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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