· Private foundation
Morse Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rose Community Foundation | $80,000 |
| Temple Emanuel | $50,842 |
| Jewish Family Service of CO | $40,250 |
| National Jewish Health | $28,625 |
| Anti Defamation League | $15,000 |
| Chosen and Dearly Loved | $12,960 |
| The Jewish Experience | $11,800 |
| Ace Scholarships | $10,000 |
| CELL | $10,000 |
| Navy Seal Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mizel Institute | $10,000 |
| University of Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| BBYO | $10,000 |
| The Lotus Project | $5,500 |
| Jewish National Fund | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $274k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC6× · 2018–2024 · $214k · revenue +92%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH8× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +50%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +78%
Funded once
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +22%- TPTHE PARK PEOPLEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +655%
- FFFUND FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROWone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
91 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. 91 of the 169 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARK PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENNINGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · JEWISHColorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II · Mile High United Way Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Melvin & Elaine Wolf 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
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.