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Morrison Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH COAST LAND CONSERVANCY | $11,000 |
| THE SHADOW PROJECT | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $9,500 |
| OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $8,500 |
| DESCHUTES BASIN LAND TRUST | $8,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your 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.
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 +97% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NCNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +190%
- CTCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +18%
- OHOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- STSILETZ TRIBAL ARTS & HERITAGE SOCIEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TCThe Coalition of Oregon Land Trustsgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +31%
- SASALEM AUDUBON SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +28%
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The purpose of oregon coast scenic railroad is to acquire, preserve, operate and interpret railroad and logging equipment to broaden public appreciation and to educate all ages.
Land Use Issues
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Grace Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SHADOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds CALDERA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts ↗
- Who funds SALEM AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Grace Institute ↗
- Who funds UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Autzen 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 Morrison Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Japanese American Museum of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Wallowa Land Trust — 3% of income from government
- Umpqua Valley Arts Association — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 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.
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