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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.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$182kHealth$167kCivil Rights$116kReligion$105kPublic Benefit$90kCrime & Legal$68kEducation$67kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$914k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU FOUNDATION$20,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD$20,000
REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$10,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER$10,000
LAMBDA LEGAL$10,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$10,000
POISE FOUNDATION$10,000
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH$7,500
NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER$7,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER RICHMOND$5,000
CARDINAL PRODUCTIONS$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
COMING TOGETHER VIRGINIA$5,000
LIFE ANEW RESTORATIVE JUSTICE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $8k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $5k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $5k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $5k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $3k → 8%NEW ARRIVALS INSTITUTE: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Morris Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Morris Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$643k · 31 repeat orgs$251k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$643k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHealthInternationalEnvironmentCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +70%
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +27%
  • CP
    CARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • LL
    Lillian's List Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +121%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
9
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
10
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward and the most unlike its peers is Secretariat Heritage Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Lgbtq+ Community CentersCommunity Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Child and Family ServicesUnited Way FederationsSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Land Conservation Organizat…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsNative Hawaiian Community D…Youth Development CentersHospice Care ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%68%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,500

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.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NC — $55,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NCCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $25,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $22,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER RICHMOND — $20,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY FORWARD — $20,000 · OtherTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $20,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $16,750 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $25,500 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $25,250 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIACHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $22,500 · Other+43 more — $174,125 · Other+43 moreCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE A…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $47,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…POISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPOISE FOUNDATION+2 more — $4,500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $133,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH — $15,500 · HealthMUSTARD SEED COMM…GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC — $7,500 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · HealthLillian's List Foundation — $25,000 · Civil RightsLillian's Li…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…COMING TOGETHER VIRGINIA — $20,000 · Civil RightsCOMING TOGET…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTIC…LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL…COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO…Campaign For Southern Equality — $10,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $7,500 · Civil Rights+4 moreST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $65,000 · Education+2 more — $4,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $9,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $2,500 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalCARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $40,000 · Public Benefit
Other$451,625Philanthropy$162,000Health$160,500Civil Rights$117,500Education$69,000International$52,500Public Benefit$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $133,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $25,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $25,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $22,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMING TOGETHER VIRGINIA — $20,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH — $15,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCASA — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRepairers of the Breach — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFaithAction International House — $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENCE FARM — $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMANI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Greensboro — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP — $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANAAN VALLEY INSTITUTE — $1,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH BE TOLD — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Legal Clinic — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Moses Cone - Wesley L…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Community Foundat…The Hummel Family Fun…Hillsdale FundZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Charlottesville Area …Amalgamated Charitabl…The Rimora FoundationPraxis Foundation (Th…Weaver Foundation Inc
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rimora Foundation · Praxis Foundation (The) · Weaver Foundation Inc

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 Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Morris Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Morris Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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