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Morning Glory Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $91k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Investment In Nemo Capital Llc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIELD SEMESTER | $16,000 |
| URCSF | $15,000 |
| KIPP | $10,000 |
| BAY AREA ASYLUM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| THE MILO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DESTINY ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| NRDC | $10,000 |
| TIDELINES INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOODBANK | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ASPENOUT | $5,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $5,000 |
| SEMESTER AT SEA (GLASGOW SCHOLARCHIP) | $5,000 |
| THE CREATIVE GROWTH ART CENTER | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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 +87% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- TFTHE FIELD SEMESTER7× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +622%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +87%- BOBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY5× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +33%
- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +7%
- BHBERKELEY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.
Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Inspiring and building a sustainable, healthy, and just future for the east bay, california, and beyond.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The Berkeley Student Food Collective works to provide healthy, sustainable, and affordable food for the East Bay community. At our volunteer-run grocery collective, the Food Collective acts as a local hub for leadership development and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Newport Harbor High School Alumni Association Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 68 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 THE FIELD SEMESTER ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN SUN COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Prison Yoga Project Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds The East Oakland Collective ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Morning Glory Family 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.
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.