· Private foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 122 grants below total $288,769 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,424 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,655 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k113 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Thea Foundation | $30,000 |
| Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute | $20,000 |
| Delta Arts | $15,000 |
| ASMSA Foundation Fund | $15,000 |
| UCA Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Thea Foundation | $10,000 |
| CHI St Vincent Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hot Springs Development Foundation | $10,000 |
| Alzheimer's Arkansas Program | $10,000 |
| Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance | $5,375 |
| Hot Springs Development Foundation | $5,000 |
| Arkansans for the Arts | $5,000 |
| HS Area Community Fdtn | $5,000 |
| Gaines House | $5,000 |
| Arkansas Arts Center | $5,000 |
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.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
Provide access and education emphasizing arts and cultural programs for the people of North central Arkansas and to the art gallery & museum visitors while also preserving the rich history and culture of the Ozark Mountain Region-North…
Educate the general public about items of historical significance and preservation of historic buildings, artifacts and landmarks in south arkansas
Provide financial aid & scholarships
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
Provide world-class diverse innovative dance programming and education to arkansas and beyond.
Promotion of the arts in arkansas city, ks, and the surrounding area
Promote the arts in the grand prairie region of arkansas
Art and Historical Museum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faces Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 73 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 THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute ↗
- Who funds HOT SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds EMERGENT ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAINES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Learning Through the Arts ↗
- Who funds HOT SPRINGS CHILDRENS DANCE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds HOT SPRINGS JAZZ SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds LOW KEY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC ↗
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: 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
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.
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