Colorado · 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.
- $359k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Morse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $274k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $358k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $298k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $146k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $173k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $96k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $117k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $140k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $214,450 | 6 | 1% |
| National Jewish Health | $142,795 | 8 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $99,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $80,850 | 8 | 0% |
| The Jewish Experience | $75,320 | 7 | n/a |
| B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lion Global Foundation | $41,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Shalom Park | $28,080 | 8 | 0% |
| Roundup River Ranch | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($582k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Morse Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Morse Family Foundation
- How much does Morse Family Foundation give?
- Morse Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $358,864 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Morse Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Human Services (11%), Health (8%).
- Who are Morse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($214k), National Jewish Health ($143k), Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($100k).
- Does Morse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morse Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morse Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Morse Family Foundation based?
- Morse Family Foundation is based in CO.
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