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Morris Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$330k
Granted FY2018
122
Itemized grants FY2018
72
Organizations funded FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$289k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$30,000
States reached, FY2018
5
Total assets, FY2018
$359k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$93kHuman Services$46kHealth$33kEducation$22kCommunity Improvement$17kPhilanthropy$15kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thea Foundation$40,5001n/a
Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute$20,10016%
Hot Springs Development Foundation$16,500116%
Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance$9,6751n/a
Emergent Arts$9,6001n/a
Arkansas Policy Foundation$5,50015%
Arkansans for the Arts$5,2001n/a
Gaines House Inc$5,00012%
Hot Spring County Homeless Coalition$5,0001n/a
Mid America Science Museum$5,00010%
Show all 30 grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morris Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHot Springs Documentary Film Institute: $20,100 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHot Springs Development Foundation: $16,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetArkansas Policy Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGaines House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMid America Science Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHot Springs Jazz Society: $3,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetArkansas Sports Hall of Fame Inc: $2,850 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArkansas Hospice Foundation Inc: $1,719 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGarland County Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOuachita Baptist University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPocket Theatre Inc: $660 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of the Ozarks: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOuachita Children Youth & Family Services Inc: $330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcCall Music Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArkansas Freedom Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR47.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Munro Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Elisabeth D Wagner Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jane Howard Foundation Melanie Masino Trustee · Chi St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs (Fka Mercy Hospital Hot Springs) · The Ross Foundation · Horace C Cabe Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation

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.

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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.

About Morris Foundation Inc

How much does Morris Foundation Inc give?
Morris Foundation Inc reported 122 itemized grants totaling $288,769, out of $330,424 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Morris Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (11%), Human Services (6%), Health (4%).
Who are Morris Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Thea Foundation ($41k), Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute ($20k), Hot Springs Development Foundation ($17k).
Does Morris Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Morris Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Munro Foundation, Arvest Foundation.
Where is Morris Foundation Inc based?
Morris Foundation Inc is based in AR.

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 73 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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