· Private foundation
Morris Greenspun Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $6,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $2,500 |
| MEADOWS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| OUTLOUD DALLAS | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $1,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES | $1,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $500 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +7%
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
- NTNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC5× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- DADONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2018 · $220k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELESone grant, 2021 · $5k
- HBHAYNES & BOONE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -79%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of austin college is to educate students in the liberal arts and sciences in order to prepare them for rewarding careers and for full, engaged and meaningful lives.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
Dtc will engage, entertain, and inspire our diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living and by producing plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haynes & Boone 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 38 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 ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds HAYNES & BOONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BARACK OBAMA MALE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OutLoud Dallas ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ART WITHOUT LIMITS ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds C C YOUNG MEMORIAL HOME ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
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: Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Addy Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse 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 Greenspun Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% 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.