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Morris Greenspun Foundation at a glance

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Morris Greenspun Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$228kEducation$82kArts & Culture$57kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$4kYouth Development$3kMembership Benefit$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS$6,000
HOCKADAY SCHOOL$6,000
DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATRE$2,500
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES$1,000
OUTLOUD DALLAS$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$1,000
MEADOWS MUSEUM$1,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL$500
TRINITY COLLEGE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CT
CA
VA
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 9 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$133k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyMembership BenefitEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +7%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +249%
  • HS
    HOCKADAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • DA
    DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $220k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • HB
    HAYNES & BOONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -79%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
3
Dallas Baptist University

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…

Education
4
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
5
Criswell College

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.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Austin College

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.

Education
8
Dallas Contemporary

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Dallas Theater Center

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Furman University

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.

Education
11
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
12
Dunwoody College of Technology

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 38 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED FUND: $220,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUNDDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $8,500 · Other+14 more: $16,574 · Other+14 moreST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $43,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF T…HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOLVanderbilt University: $6,500 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTRINITY COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $4,000 · Education+6 more: $5,600 · Education+6 moreDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $41,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS…NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBL…Dallas Museum of Art: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $800 · Arts & CultureEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAYNES & BOONE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,250 · Membership BenefitBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 · InternationalOutLoud Dallas: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$245,074Education$75,100Arts & Culture$54,800Philanthropy$8,000Membership Benefit$2,250International$1,500Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $43,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $41,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutLoud Dallas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTACA INC: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART WITHOUT LIMITS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC C YOUNG MEMORIAL HOME: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $50 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.

Hillcrest FoundationThe Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Eugene McDermott …Texas Women's Foundat…The Addy FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Moody FoundationThe Perot FoundationThe Rosewood Foundati…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…
Hillcrest FoundationTX26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morris Greenspun Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morris Greenspun Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home