· Private foundation
Morrison 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST | $34,500 |
| CENTRAL MS PREVENTION SERVICES | $32,687 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL PARK | $5,000 |
| EUDORA WELTY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK | $1,920 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN HERITAGE AIR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TRIUMP CHURCH | $500 |
| STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 22%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST7× · 2019–2025 · $230k
- CSCRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH2× · 2017–2018 · $63k
- EWEudora Welty Foundation Inc3× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue -44%
Funded once
- HEHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +185%
- SUSHAPE UP MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -77%
- MCMISSISSIPPI COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
To provide food, shelter, and vet services for stray, unwanted, and terminally ill animals in the warren county and vicksburg area.
Identify, preserve, protect, and interpret Vicksburg's historic built environment.
To connect and coordinate united methodist volunteers and their christian friends with persons in need of humanitarian assistance and spiritual encouragement.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community by giving, advocating, and volunteering
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…
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.
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
Our mission is to support commerce and promote growth to enhance the quality of life in jackson county.
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN CO CHAMBER OF COM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Jesus Others & You Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HERITAGE AIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morrison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morrison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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