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Morris Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$169kEducation$34kEnvironment$33kCivil Rights$19kArts & Culture$12kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hedgebrook$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Canal Welcome Center: $1k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 10 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$259k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+41%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +276%
  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +106%
  • H
    HEDGEBROOK
    7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • ME
    Marin Educ Fund 10000 Degrees
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PA
    Progress Alliance of Washington
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

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Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
5
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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6
Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Improve the well-being of the Latinos in Washington State

Human Services
7
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
8
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
9
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
10
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
11
Just Communities Central Coast

At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…

Civil Rights
12
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change; the most unlike its peers is Latino Civic Alliance. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $147,550 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORKSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $18,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyWashington Envmntal Council Educati: $16,800 · OtherWashington Envmntal Counci…League of Conservation Education: $16,000 · OtherLeague of Conservation Edu…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCommunity Change: $10,000 · OtherCommunity ChangeMarin Educ Fund 10000 Degrees: $5,250 · OtherMarin Educ Fund 10000 Degr…Progress Alliance of Washington: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $6,750 · Other+5 more10000 DEGREES: $28,125 · Education10000 DEGREESORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationORGANIC FARM …+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHEDGEBROOK: $11,625 · Arts & CultureThe Pride Foundation: $3,000 · Civil RightsLATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE: $2,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $2,500 · Community ImprovementThe Multicultural Center of Marin: $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$168,550Other$67,800Education$35,125Arts & Culture$11,625Civil Rights$5,500Community Improvement$2,500Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $147,550 over 8y, 0.2% of budget10000 DEGREES: $28,125 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEDGEBROOK: $11,625 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Progress Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pride Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Multicultural Center of Marin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $500 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 WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds HEDGEBROOK ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Washington Progress Fund ↗
  • Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Multicultural Center of Marin ↗
  • Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationImpactassetsincTides FoundationInatai FoundationStolte Family Foundat…Medina FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustPuget Sound Energy Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Mightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Seattle FoundationWA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Medina Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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-PF 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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