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.

Morse Family Foundation

Morse Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MPhilanthropy$725kArts & Culture$518kScience & Tech$448kHealth$300kCommunity Improvement$250kHousing & Shelter$67kEnvironment$41kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $67k
$10k–50k4 grants · $78k
$50k–250k2 grants · $280k
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$600,000
Individual grant recipient	$185,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE	$95,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$27,575
TUFTS UNIVERSITY	$20,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART	$20,000
MIANUS RIVER GORGE INC	$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH	$9,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY	$7,000
DANCERS WORKSHOP	$6,000
BREARLEY SCHOOL	$5,750
DEERFIELD ACADEMY	$5,500
ST JOHNS HEALTH FOUNDATION	$5,000
MARCY LAB	$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION	$4,100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.8M · 43 repeat orgs$702k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+26%

Still filing today

74%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $618k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

Trustees of Tufts College
6× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +26%
SO
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $272k · revenue +101%
PA
Project Access Inc
2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +41%

Funded once

FM
FLAGLER MUSEUM
one grant, 2024 · $15k
TS
THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +185%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/67

Grantees still filing

50/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,061,413Education$1,095,350Philanthropy$726,168Arts & Culture$485,365Community Improvement$250,000Housing & Shelter$63,700Environment$25,935

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home