Kansas · Private foundation
Morrison Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $297k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 42
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Morrison Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $265k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $299k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $221k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $261k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McPherson College | $79,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Salina Art Center Inc | $77,010 | 5 | 8% |
| Salina Area United Way Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Fellow Man International Foundation | $70,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts Foundation | $29,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Olivia Bloomfield Foundation | $23,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Douglas County Casa Program Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Peoples Heartland Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prairieland Market Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($749k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morrison Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust · Marshall Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Morrison Foundation Trust
- How much does Morrison Foundation Trust give?
- Morrison Foundation Trust reported 47 grants totaling $297,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 42 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Morrison Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Philanthropy (16%), Education (16%).
- Who are Morrison Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: McPherson College ($79k), Salina Art Center Inc ($77k), Salina Area United Way Inc ($75k).
- Does Morrison Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morrison Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morrison Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc, Greater Salina Community Foundation, Smoot Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Morrison Foundation Trust based?
- Morrison Foundation Trust is based in KS.
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