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Morris Willner Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$675k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$2.0MReligion$245kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kHuman Services$25kEducation$11kPhilanthropy$4kHealth$875Arts & Culture$72Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $650k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID$650,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDWOMENT FUNDS INC$2,500
ONE ISRAEL FUND$1,000
BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD$720
AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER$530
SHIR HADASH SYNAGOGUE$180
02The need
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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 (FY20–21, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $70k → 10%JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%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

MN
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 16 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$2.1M
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+5%

Still filing today

44%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +9%
  • JI
    JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +50%
  • TU
    The University of Tampa Incorporated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -8%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ATERET YERUSHALAYIM
    one grant, 2023 · $92k
  • IM
    Israel Magen Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +27%
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
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
2
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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3
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Partners Charity Fund for Israel

To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.

Philanthropy
7
The Israel Independence Fund

To raise and distribute funds for charitable organizations with the goal to strengthen the jewish and zionist spirit of the state of israel.

Philanthropy
8
Sherit Isroel
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9
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
10
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
University of Judaism Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

16 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. 16 of the 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $1,245,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INCCentral Fund of Israel: $745,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $100,000 · International+3 more: $2,350 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ATERET YERUSHALAYIM: $92,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISREAL: $36,225 · OtherZOA: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherAVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER BETH JACOB INC: $6,630 · Other+12 more: $16,052 · OtherIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 · Human ServicesOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,525 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $610 · PhilanthropyThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $800 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $50 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $72 · Arts & Culture
International$2,092,350Other$180,907Human Services$95,000Philanthropy$6,135Education$1,000Health$850Arts & Culture$72

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $1,245,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $745,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc: $25 over 2y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Willner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morris Willner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Morris Willner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Morris Willner Family Foundation 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 32 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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