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Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc at a glance

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Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$679k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$176k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.3MCivil Rights$101k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $659k
$64,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET IDAHO$175,700
Individual grant recipient$115,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center$110,900
BOISE MUSIC WEEK$89,100
OPERA IDAHO$64,000
THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC$54,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$10,800
Individual grant recipient$9,330
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BALLET IDAHO: $326k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $246k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $235k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $225k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $225k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $224k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $218k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $215k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $176k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $168k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $158k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $155k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $128k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $125k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $115k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $110k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $91k → 8%BALLET IDAHO: $86k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $85k → 8%BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $75k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $70k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $64k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $60k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $54k → 8%OPERA IDAHO: $40k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $38k → 8%BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATHER: $36k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $35k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $33k → 8%BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATHER: $23k → 8%WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $21k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $20k → 8%THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $20k → 8%WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $20k → 8%WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $20k → 8%OPENS ARMS DANCE PROJECT: $29k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $369k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $330k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $150k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $130k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $111k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $50k → 8%BOISE JAZZ SOCIETY CO BOISE STATE U: $47k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $43k → 8%LAUREN EDSON DANCE: $80k → 8%LAUREN EDSON DANCE: $52k → 8%LAUREN EDSON DANCE: $40k → 8%LAUREN EDSON DANCE: $40k → 8%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 12 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +153% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$6.2M
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+153%
-5%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • BI
    BALLET IDAHO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
  • OI
    OPERA IDAHO INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue +45%
  • BM
    BOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $466k · revenue +201% · 70% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • BJ
    BOISE JAZZ SOCIETY CO BOISE STATE U
    one grant, 2022 · $47k
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
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
Boise Little Theater

Performing arts

Arts & Culture
2
Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy
Arts & Culture
3
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
4
Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre
Arts & Culture
5
The Boise Bard Players

The boise bard players is a mobile theatre company making shakespeare and other classics economically and emotionally accessible to residends of the treasure valley and beyond.

Arts & Culture
6
Oregon Ballet Theatre

Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Alaska Dance Theatre Inc

Alaska Dance Theatre is a Not-For-Profit school of dance, and performing company, committed to promoting dance through professional education, performance and advocacy in Alaska.

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8
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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9
Idaho Dance Theatre

Provide affordable dance to public

Human Services
10
Ballet Oklahoma Inc

Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.

Arts & Culture
11
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts

The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…

Arts & Culture
12
Boise Baroque Inc

The Boise Baroque Orchestra's mission is to bring the best of the Baroque and classical repertoire to the Treasure Valley, developing new audiences and providing musicians with the opportunity to significantly extend their repertoire.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise Contemporary Theater Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wassmuth Center for Human Rights Home of the Anne Frank Memorial. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,468,062 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center: $1,183,368 · OtherBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison CenterBOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC: $465,686 · OtherBOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $323,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+6 more: $227,286 · Other+6 moreBALLET IDAHO INC: $1,518,599 · Arts & CultureBALLET IDAHO INCOPERA IDAHO INC: $556,800 · Arts & CultureOPERA IDAHO INCLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $217,700 · Arts & CultureLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INCLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED: $212,000 · Arts & CultureLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED+3 more: $97,200 · Arts & CultureWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $100,991 · Civil Rights
Other$3,668,202Arts & Culture$2,602,299Civil Rights$100,991

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALLET IDAHO INC: $1,518,599 over 8y, 11% of budgetOPERA IDAHO INC: $556,800 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC: $465,686 over 6y, 70% of budgetLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $217,700 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED: $212,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $100,991 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $58,400 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSUREL'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

  • Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SUREL'S PLACE INC ↗

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.

Idaho Power Foundatio…Idaho Community Found…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…Jr Simplot Foundation…Harad Family Foundati…Simplot Company Found…Laura Moore Cunningha…M J Murdock Charitabl…First Interstate Banc…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Idaho Power Foundation IncID17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Jr Simplot Foundation Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Morrison Center Endowment 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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