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Morris Animal Foundation

MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION's (the foundation's) mission is to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$21MEducation$3.4MHuman Services$167kHealth$125k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $4,674,215, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,952,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,278,483 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
$133,271
Median grant
19
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,849,339
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$355,257
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$313,360
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$258,499
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$214,812
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$202,112
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$162,757
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$144,828
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$144,396
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LA STATE UNIV AND AGRICULTURAL$142,916
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$136,798
FOUR RIVERS KENNEL LLC$133,271
TRUSTEE OF TUFTS COLLEGE$124,979
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$119,891
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$99,511
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ETHOS DISCOVERY: $167k → 11%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

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VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.0M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.6M · 80% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$207k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES

Middle East and North Africa$121k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES

East Asia and the Pacific$39k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES

South America$20k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 26 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

$20M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+28%

Still filing today

27%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +80%
  • Cornell University
    6× · 2017–2025 · $999k · revenue +59%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    4× · 2021–2025 · $839k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • VI
    VAIKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +39%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • CN
    Charity Navigator
    one grant, 2024 · $167k · revenue +13%
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 Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Vaika Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,607,353 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $2,118,384 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,872,171 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTANC STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,556,332 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $1,523,039 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $605,665 · Other+40 more: $6,112,384 · Other+40 moreUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $1,785,469 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Rese…Cornell University: $999,029 · EducationCornell UniversityTrustees of Tufts College: $838,668 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $415,725 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Res…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $360,279 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $307,677 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $219,192 · Education+10 more: $766,880 · Education+10 moreVAIKA INC: $250,000 · AnimalsCANINE CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $158,152 · AnimalsREVIVE & RESTORE: $132,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $92,389 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $68,376 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $52,947 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $49,993 · Animals+4 more: $62,785 · AnimalsCharity Navigator: $166,761 · Human ServicesSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $73,593 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $58,374 · Arts & CultureThe Broad Institute Inc: $100,191 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · HealthLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $79,422 · Science & Tech
Other$17,395,328Education$5,692,919Animals$916,642Human Services$166,761Arts & Culture$131,967Health$125,191Science & Tech$79,422

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $1,785,469 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $999,029 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $838,668 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $415,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $360,279 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $307,677 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $219,192 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $166,761 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCANINE CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $158,152 over 1y, 33% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $156,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVIVE & RESTORE: $132,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $126,546 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $124,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $119,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $119,577 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $104,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $100,191 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $92,389 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $79,422 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $73,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $68,376 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $58,374 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $52,947 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $49,993 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs: $25,005 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $20,267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,985 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $18,630 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROPERTIES CORP: $10,800 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH-EAST ZOO ALLIANCE FOR REPRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION INC: $8,350 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $8,291 over 1y, 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 University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds VAIKA INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds CANINE CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds REVIVE & RESTORE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗

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.

Tulsa Community Found…National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…The Nature ConservancyMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 81 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 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home