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Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,420
Organizations funded a year
15 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$67k31%
FY202316$63k38%
FY202216$64k19%
FY202116$75k44%
FY202015$60k40%
FY201918$57k50%
FY201817$72k53%
FY201718$70kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$123kHuman Services$96kHealth$81kEducation$39kCrime & Legal$34kInternational$33kYouth Development$33kEnvironment$27kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
OR
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Transition Projects Inc$43,90070%
Abc House Inc$42,90080%
Casa of Linn County Inc$34,30072%
Sjogren's Foundation Inc$28,50050%
Medical Teams International$28,45080%
Catalyst Partnerships$26,80054%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$21,00060%
Albany Helping Hands$19,75050%
Michelles Love$14,42022%
Philomath Community Services Inc$13,50040%
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All grantees of Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Transition Projects Inc$43,90070%
Abc House Inc$42,90080%
Casa of Linn County Inc$34,30072%
Sjogren's Foundation Inc$28,50050%
Medical Teams International$28,45080%
Catalyst Partnerships$26,80054%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$21,00060%
Albany Helping Hands$19,75050%
Michelles Love$14,42022%
Philomath Community Services Inc$13,50040%
Portland Rescue Mission$12,1753n/a
Linn Benton Food Share$10,94020%
Northwest Family Services$9,70040%
Friends of Saturday Academy$9,0003n/a
Honnold Foundation$8,50010%
Youth Empowerment Shelter$7,42011%
Family Building Blocks Inc$7,35010%
Lines for Life$7,15030%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam$6,00010%
Habitat for Humanity International Albany Area$6,00011%
Protect Our Winters$5,60020%
Serenity Lane Health Services Foundation$5,5002n/a
Grant Imahara Steam Foundation$5,15022%
Heart for Africa Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc$5,00010%
Girls Build$5,00011%
Creating Housing Coalition$4,00010%
Bradley Angle$3,71010%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization$3,71010%
Eugene Mission Inc$3,67510%
Fish of Albany Inc$3,52011%
Benton Furniture Share$3,52012%
United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties$3,52011%
PDXWildlife$3,00012%
Safehaven Humane Society$3,00010%
Sustainable Northwest$3,00010%
CRAG Rats$2,65011%
Girls on the Run Willamette Valley$2,5001n/a
Chintimini Wildlife Center$2,50011%
Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center$2,00010%
A Family for Every Child$2,00010%
Mercy House International Inc$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTransition Projects Inc: $43,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAbc House Inc: $42,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCasa of Linn County Inc: $34,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSjogren's Foundation Inc: $28,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMedical Teams International: $28,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCatalyst Partnerships: $26,800 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetJackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAlbany Helping Hands: $19,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMichelles Love: $14,420 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPhilomath Community Services Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLinn Benton Food Share: $10,940 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Family Services: $9,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Empowerment Shelter: $7,420 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Building Blocks Inc: $7,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLines for Life: $7,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Albany Area: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrant Imahara Steam Foundation: $5,150 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHeart for Africa Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Build: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCreating Housing Coalition: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBradley Angle: $3,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: $3,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEugene Mission Inc: $3,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFish of Albany Inc: $3,520 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBenton Furniture Share: $3,520 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties: $3,520 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPDXWildlife: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSafehaven Humane Society: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSustainable Northwest: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAG Rats: $2,650 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChintimini Wildlife Center: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA Family for Every Child: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…The Roundhouse Founda…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Benton Community Foun…Meyer Memorial TrustAssurant FoundationBarbara Emily Knudson…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR45.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Benton Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Assurant Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson 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.

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About Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation

How much does Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation give?
Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $67,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (20%), Human Services (16%), Health (13%).
Who are Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Transition Projects Inc ($44k), Abc House Inc ($43k), Casa of Linn County Inc ($34k).
Does Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Autzen Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation.
Where is Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation based?
Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation is based in OR.

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 64 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $70k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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