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Morrison 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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST | $33,000 |
| EUDORA WELTY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL MS PREVENTION SERVICES | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY WEST CENTRAL MS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CSCRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST6× · 2019–2024 · $195k
- CSCRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH2× · 2017–2018 · $63k
- EWEudora Welty Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue -44%
Funded once
- HEHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +185%
- MCMISSISSIPPI COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SUSHAPE UP MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -77%
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.
To provide food, shelter, and vet services for stray, unwanted, and terminally ill animals in the warren county and vicksburg area.
To connect and coordinate united methodist volunteers and their christian friends with persons in need of humanitarian assistance and spiritual encouragement.
The mission of the organization focuses on bringing together the business community to support economic development long-term strategic planning, develop funding, and provide expertise in the development of sound local and regional…
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
To promote and assist in economic development, job creation and job training for washington county, ms and surrounding areas. to promote and assist existing businesses in the area.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community by giving, advocating, and volunteering
To be a leading driver and advocate for community and economic development in jackson county.
Mississippi votes is an organization of intergenerational synergy centering and led by young people invested in the progression of mississippi. we do this through our programming and outreach strategies that empowers young people,…
We remove barriers to opportunity through citizen action so all mississippians can flourish.
To locate new industry and assist existing industry to promote the general economic good health of west point, ms and clay county, ms in addition to sponsoring activities and programs to promote tourism and enhance the overall livability…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Food Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jesus Others & You Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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 HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds SHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN CO CHAMBER OF COM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jesus Others & You Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · International Paper Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.
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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