· Private foundation
Morris Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $759k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Covenant House | $200,000 |
| Clinica esperanza roatan | $174,255 |
| Salvation Army | $110,000 |
| Maryknoll Lay Missioners | $100,000 |
| Maryhurst | $100,000 |
| West End School | $75,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $15,000 |
| New Life Church | $10,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc | $10,000 |
| Help Hope Live | $5,000 |
| Water By Women | $4,000 |
| The Navigators | $2,000 |
| SOS | $2,000 |
| Franciscan Kitchen | $1,500 |
| Mercy Ships | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $646k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE7× · 2017–2025 · $668k · revenue +34%
- MIMARYHURST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $560k · revenue +42%
- WEWest End School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $522k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HVHighland Vineyard Churchone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE 320 ↗
- Who funds Mission Encounters International Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Water By Women ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Barbara and Albert Horton Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · George and Mary Lee Duthie Charitable Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Paradis Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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