Wyoming · Private foundation
Morse Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Morse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $913k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $623k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $481k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $199k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $505k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $428k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $343k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Tufts College | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yale University | $293,384 | 3 | n/a |
| School of American Ballet Inc | $272,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Project Access Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yale University | $234,577 | 2 | n/a |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $157,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yale University | $137,922 | 2 | n/a |
| Prep for Prep | $72,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $63,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Marcy Lab Inc | $39,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morse Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Ladd Family Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Shepherds - a Family Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fjc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Morse Family Foundation
- How much does Morse Family Foundation give?
- Morse Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,024,338 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Morse Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Philanthropy (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Morse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Trustees of Tufts College ($325k), Yale University ($293k), School of American Ballet Inc ($272k).
- Does Morse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% 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 Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Hughes Charitable Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is Morse Family Foundation based?
- Morse Family Foundation is based in WY.
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