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Morris Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $252k
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP | $285,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION - SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $78,000 |
| DASRA | $72,258 |
| AMERICAN JESUITS INTERNATIONAL | $52,000 |
| UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND | $50,000 |
| PROXIMITY2HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| BERKELEY COMMUNITY SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO | $5,000 |
| NAMI | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS UCP | $5,000 |
| GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSN OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE | $3,000 |
| PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +3% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- PFPEOPLE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP INC2× · 2024–2025 · $390k · revenue +45% · 38% of their budget
- UCUMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $198k · revenue +11% · 55% of their budget
- GMGLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH7× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue ×18
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EDELGIVEone grant, 2022 · $277k
- UCUMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $79k
- UCUMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
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.
The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tibet Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Andreas Dream Rescue. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 86 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 GIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DASRA ↗
- Who funds UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAHARASHTRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds American Jesuits International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds The Spahr Center ↗
- Who funds HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS 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 San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Fund 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.
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