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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
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2018 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 122 grants below total $288,769, the rows itemized in this filing. The $330,424 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,655 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k113 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thea Foundation$30,000
Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute$20,000
Delta Arts$15,000
ASMSA Foundation Fund$15,000
Thea Foundation$10,000
Alzheimer's Arkansas Program$10,000
UCA Foundation Inc$10,000
CHI St Vincent Foundation$10,000
Hot Springs Development Foundation$10,000
Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance$5,375
Arkansas Arts Center$5,000
Broyles Foundation$5,000
Arkansans for the Arts$5,000
Arkansas Sheriff's Boys & Girls Ranch$5,000
HS Area Community Fdtn$5,000
02Its 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.

1
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Ozark Heritage Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
5
South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society

Educate the general public about items of historical significance and preservation of historic buildings, artifacts and landmarks in south arkansas

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6
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Southern Arkansas University Foundation Inc

Provide financial aid & scholarships

Education
8
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture
9
Ballet Arkansas Inc

Provide world-class diverse innovative dance programming and education to arkansas and beyond.

Arts & Culture
10
Arkansas City Area Art Council Inc

Promotion of the arts in arkansas city, ks, and the surrounding area

Arts & Culture
11
Grand Prairie Art Council Inc

Promote the arts in the grand prairie region of arkansas

Arts & Culture
12
Ouachita African American Historical Society Inc

Art and Historical Museum.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOT SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $16,500 · OtherHOT SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONASMSA Foundation Fund: $15,000 · OtherASMSA Foundation FundDelta Arts: $15,000 · OtherDelta ArtsUCA Foundation Inc: $12,000 · OtherUCA Foundation IncCHI St Vincent Foundation: $10,250 · OtherCHI St Vincent FoundationAlzheimer's Arkansas Program: $10,000 · OtherAlzheimer's Arkansas ProgramHot Springs Area Cultural Alliance: $9,675 · OtherHot Springs Area Cultural AllianceArkansas Sheriff's Boys & Girls Ranch: $6,500 · Other+43 more: $84,888 · Other+43 moreHot Springs Documentary Film Institute: $20,100 · Arts & CultureHot Springs Documen…EMERGENT ARTS: $9,600 · Arts & CultureEMERGENT ARTSMID AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMID AMERICA SCIENCE…Arkansas Learning Through the Arts: $4,000 · Arts & CultureArkansas Learning T…HOT SPRINGS CHILDRENS DANCE THEATRE CO: $3,850 · Arts & CultureHOT SPRINGS CHILDRE…ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,850 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS SPORTS HAL…LOW KEY ARTS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $660 · Arts & CultureTHEA FOUNDATION: $40,500 · Human ServicesTHEA FOUNDATIONGAINES HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGAINES HOUSE INC+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Crime & LegalARKANSAS HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,719 · HealthCOOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES & CLINIC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $500 · EducationARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $747 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS FREEDOM FUND INC: $250 · PhilanthropyOUACHITA CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $330 · Housing & Shelter
Other$179,813Arts & Culture$50,560Human Services$46,000Crime & Legal$5,500Health$3,319Education$2,250Philanthropy$997Housing & Shelter$330

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

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 budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $747 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
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.

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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Find your warmest path to Morris Foundation Inc 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 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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