· Private foundation
Morris Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST | $10,000 |
| SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL | $8,000 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAVANNAH WIND SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your 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 +45% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +45%
- SPSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +167%
- SVSAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- IPINDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $500k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $7k
- SSSAVANNAH SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As the nation's preeminent performing arts festival, spoleto produces and presents work of the highest artistic caliber to diverse and adventurous audiences. through innovation, education, and a commitment to our community, we harness the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 49 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH WIND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Kiwanis Club FoundationInc ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds THE V O I C EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Vision Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds COASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
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 Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Hodge Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Morris Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.