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Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$112kHousing & Shelter$65kHealth$52kCivil Rights$34kInternational$28kYouth Development$23kEnvironment$16kFood & Nutrition$11kAnimals$9kOther$181k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE - CORVALLIS$7,420
MICHELLE'S LOVE$7,420
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER$7,420
Individual grant recipient$5,420
PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES$4,000
CASA OF LINN COUNTY$4,000
JACKSON STREET YOUTH SERVICES$4,000
ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT$4,000
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$3,710
BRADLEY ANGLE$3,710
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$2,650
TRANSITION PROJECTS$2,650
LINES FOR LIFE$2,650
CRAG RATS$2,650
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION$2,650
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $7k → 14%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $2k → 15%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 18%ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 13%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 18%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 18%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $6k → 13%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 18%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $5k → 12%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $6k → 13%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $2k → 12%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $5k → 13%BRADLEY ANGLE: $4k → 12%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $5k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $4k → 13%ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.

About 18% of Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$384k · 25 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
33

Total granted

$384k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+37%

Still filing today

68%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TP
    Transition Projects Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +114%
  • CASA OF LINN COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +28%
  • SF
    SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • HF
    Honnold Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +36%
  • FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • RC
    RANDALL CHILDREN'S HOSP FDTN - COLE PARKER RANDALL FOR CHILD LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Mcminnville Area Habitat for Humanity

To build partnerships among volunteers, families, and the community in order to build simple, decent houses for families in need.

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3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
5
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
6
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
7
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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8
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
9
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals
10
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
11
Beyond These Walls

Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benton Furniture Share. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentoring and SupportOregon Industry AssociationsHealthcare Systems and Foun…Community Arts PresentersLocal Community GrantmakingSupportive Housing & Commun…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr14%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr14%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
12%
2,510/20,846

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Transition Projects Inc — $43,900 · OtherTransition Projects IncFIRST CHRISTIAN PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL — $14,500 · OtherFIRST CHRISTIAN PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOLPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION — $12,175 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES — $9,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $9,420 · OtherHonnold Foundation — $8,500 · OtherLINN BENTON FOOD SHARE — $10,940 · Other+31 more — $107,250 · Other+31 moreABC HOUSE INC — $42,900 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE INCALBANY HELPING HANDS — $19,750 · Human ServicesALBANY HELPING HANDSPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SER…FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY — $9,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACA…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $7,350 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS …SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Human ServicesGRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION — $5,150 · Human Services+3 more — $9,230 · Human Services+3 moreCATALYST PARTNERSHIPS — $26,800 · Housing & ShelterCATALYST PART…JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterJACKSON STREE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ALBANY AREA — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR H…CREATING HOUSING COALITION — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCREATING HOUS…EUGENE MISSION INC — $3,675 · Housing & ShelterEUGENE MISSIO…FISH OF ALBANY INC — $3,520 · Housing & ShelterFISH OF ALBAN…SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 · HealthSJOGREN'S F…MICHELLES LOVE — $14,420 · HealthMICHELLES L…Lines for Life — $7,150 · HealthLines for L…MERCY HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 · HealthCASA OF LINN COUNTY INC — $34,300 · Civil RightsMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $28,450 · InternationalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER — $7,420 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER SANTIAM — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$216,385Human Services$112,380Housing & Shelter$64,995Health$52,070Civil Rights$34,300International$28,450Youth Development$23,420

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART FOR AFRICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS BUILD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATING HOUSING COALITION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $3,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBradley Angle — $3,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC — $3,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENTON FURNITURE SHARE — $3,520 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFISH OF ALBANY INC — $3,520 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LINN BENTON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES — $3,520 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPDXWildlife — $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Youth Empowerment Shelter — 65% of income from government
  • Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Crag Rats — 41% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
  • A Family for Every Child — 33% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam — 14% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
  • Albany Helping Hands — 8% of income from government
  • Mercy House International Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
  • Casa of Linn County Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines