Texas · 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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,694
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $146k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Morning Star Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 4 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $500 | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church | $13,500 | 3 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $11,076 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Andrews Episcopal Church | $3,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvert Colored and Spigner High Alumni Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of the Epiphany | $2,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Michael and All Angels Church | $2,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Hockaday School | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Aggieland Humane Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $334 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church | $13,500 | 3 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $11,076 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Andrews Episcopal Church | $3,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvert Colored and Spigner High Alumni Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of the Epiphany | $2,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Michael and All Angels Church | $2,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Hockaday School | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Aggieland Humane Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $334 | 1 | 0% |
| Wildlife Habitat Federation | $333 | 1 | n/a |
| Mdrc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Morning Star Foundation
- How much does Morning Star Foundation give?
- Morning Star Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $10,969 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Morning Star Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Public Benefit (22%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Morning Star Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church ($14k), North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc ($11k), Woodberry Forest School ($5k).
- Does Morning Star Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% 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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Morning Star Foundation based?
- Morning Star Foundation is based in TX.
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