Alabama · Private foundation
Morning Star 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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,836
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $534k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Morning Star Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 | 19 | $57k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $74k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $60k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $116k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $78k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $58k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc | $123,519 | 6 | 6% |
| Precept | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $9,030 | 6 | 0% |
| Four Corners Ministriesinc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $6,860 | 6 | n/a |
| MAP International Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wiregrass Area Food Bank Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Dothan Rescue Mission Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc | $3,600 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morning Star 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: Wiregrass Foundation · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Morning Star Foundation
- How much does Morning Star Foundation give?
- Morning Star Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $56,846 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Morning Star Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Health (32%), International (8%).
- Who are Morning Star Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Honduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc ($124k), Precept ($22k), Samaritan's Purse ($9k).
- Does Morning Star Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morning Star Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morning Star Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wiregrass Foundation, Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Morning Star Foundation based?
- Morning Star Foundation is based in AL.
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