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Morrow Legacy 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.

$187k
Granted FY2021
21
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Morrow Legacy Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Morrow Legacy Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $187k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’18
8
’19
21
’20
18
’21
0
’22
24
’23
18
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$748kAnimals$98kHuman Services$43kEducation$32kArts & Culture$32kEnvironment$30kScience & Tech$27kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k19 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER$125,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC$5,000
SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BEAUFORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$3,500
VALUE SCHOOLS$3,000
CHILD ABUSE LISTENING MEDIATION INC$3,000
SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION$3,000
OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS$3,000
FIELD OF DREAMS LEARNINGS$3,000
PARK CITY FOUNDATION$3,000
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC$3,000
NOAH'S ARKS RESCUE$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LOWCOUNTRY INC$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $5k → 8%CANINE SUPPORT TEAMS: $1k → 11%MONTEREY BAY HORSEMANSHIP & THERAPEUTIC CENTER: $5k → 13%PALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFESERVICES: $1k → 16%CONTINUE MISSION: $5k → 6%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $5k → 8%SUGAR BEAR FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
TN
SC
OK
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$631k · 30 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
24

Total granted

$631k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+53%

Still filing today

97%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ST
    SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +238%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $27k · revenue +0%
  • CI
    CALM INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • LT
    LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB NBC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • TL
    T L C FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
4
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
5
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
6
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
7
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
8
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
10
Northwest Battle Buddies

To empower combat veterans with ptsd to regain their freedom and independence by partnering them with professionally trained and specifically matched service dogs at no charge to serve those who have served us all.

Human Services
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Silicon Valley Pet Project

Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rescue Coop. 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

53 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. 53 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $400,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICSTOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER: $318,000 · OtherVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTERCALM INC: $17,000 · Other+34 more: $157,900 · Other+34 moreSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $45,000 · AnimalsNOAH'S ARKS RESCUE: $6,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 · AnimalsProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS: $5,000 · AnimalsNoah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsRescue Coop: $4,500 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $4,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $27,000 · EducationKIDS CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $7,030 · EducationVALUE SCHOOLS: $6,000 · EducationTHE CALTECH Y: $5,000 · EducationGROUND EDUCATION: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFINALLY FAMILY HOMES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCONTINUE MISSION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Public BenefitONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP: $7,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $6,000 · Public BenefitSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $12,000 · EnvironmentPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $2,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Environment
Health$430,000Other$492,900Animals$75,500Education$58,030Human Services$50,000Public Benefit$25,000Environment$18,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $45,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCALM INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION ANIMAL PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKIDS CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFINALLY FAMILY HOMES: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKids In Nutrition: $9,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetARIEL THEATRICAL INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $7,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP: $7,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMEARTH: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNOAH'S ARKS RESCUE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVALUE SCHOOLS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUFORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCONTINUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWARRIOR WOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE CHARLESTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRescue Coop: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD OF DREAMS LEARNING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROUND EDUCATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTracys Dogs: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFE SERVI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation …Coastal Community Fou…Dan and Merrie Boone …Amg Charitable Gift F…Manitou FundSa Ming FoundationLaurel Charitable Tru…Mosher FoundationRudi Schulte Family F…Goodwin Family Memori…Sisters of Charity Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Manitou Fund · Sa Ming Foundation · Laurel Charitable Trust · Mosher Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Goodwin Family Memorial Tua · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation

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 Morrow Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morrow Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Morrow Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Morrow Legacy Foundation 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 70 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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