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Morse Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Morse Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$863k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$907kPublic Benefit$807kHealth$806kYouth Development$614kEducation$563kRecreation & Sports$275kCommunity Improvement$120kArts & Culture$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $568k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRIMER MICROSCHOOLS FOUNDATION$100,000
ENTITLEMENTS HOW$100,000
3DE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$67,757
CONGAREE FOUNDATION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY$50,000
BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION$50,000
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE FOR THE TRADES$50,000
THE FAIRNESS CENTER$25,000
COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY$25,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HOOVER INSTITUTION$25,000
SCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE$25,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%American Red Cross of Southeast Michigan: $50k → 21%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

ME
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Morse Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Morse Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 32 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
19

Total granted

$3.2M
$567k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+1%

Still filing today

84%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic 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

  • EH
    ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +31%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2018–2022 · $435k · revenue +72%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2018–2020 · $349k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MI
    one grant, 2019 · $230k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    Center for American Greatness Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -10%
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.

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Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedomworks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $349,314 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF…Congaree Foundation: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree FoundationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB O…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF …THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $50,840 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB …ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $500,000 · EducationENTITLEMENTS HOW INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYBLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION: $50,000 · EducationBLACK PASTORS UNITED …WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $50,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF…THE GESU SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · EducationElevate 215: $35,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $32,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MI: $230,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE …COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONPRIMER MICROSCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherPRIMER MICROSCHOOLS FOUNDAT…3DE: $100,000 · Other3DEIndividual grant recipient: $67,757 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $57,500 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Other+22 more: $380,000 · Other+22 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $434,750 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $190,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISE…PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthPAOLI MEMORIAL H…JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $36,000 · Health+2 more: $10,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $457,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medica…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $49,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $240,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $35,000 · Civil RightsSCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: $25,000 · Civil RightsUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $120,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $44,000 · Public BenefitGLOBAL LIBERTY INSTITUTE USA: $15,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $13,000 · Public Benefit
Youth Development$915,154Education$892,500Other$1,185,257Health$711,250Philanthropy$611,500Civil Rights$300,000Public Benefit$192,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $500,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $457,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $434,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $349,314 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCongaree Foundation: $250,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $240,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $115,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $57,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $50,840 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $44,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for American Greatness Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetElevate 215: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $34,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGLOBAL LIBERTY INSTITUTE USA: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…The Lynde and Harry B…The Searle Freedom Tr…Thomas W Smith Founda…Sarah Scaife Foundati…The Philadelphia Foun…Diana Davis Spencer F…Morgan Stanley Global…Connelly FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…
Donors Trust IncVA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Philadelphia Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Connelly Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Morse Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report 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 Morse Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Morse Charitable Foundation Inc 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home