New York · Private foundation
Morse Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $454k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2026
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 96
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 26% of the organizations Morse Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 26 | $454k | 12% |
| FY2025 | 34 | $390k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $498k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 93 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $568k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $548k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teachers College Columbia University | $710,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ocean Alliance Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 5% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $265,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $154,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $130,600 | 6 | 0% |
| School of American Ballet Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $75,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Central Synagogue | $73,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Marlboro School of Music Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morse Family Foundation Inc 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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Malkin Fund Inc · John & Patricia Klingenstein Fund · Ibm International Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Morse Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Morse Family Foundation Inc give?
- Morse Family Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $454,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 96 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Morse Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (28%), Health (10%).
- Who are Morse Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Teachers College Columbia University ($710k), Ocean Alliance Inc ($325k), The Carnegie Hall Corporation ($265k).
- Does Morse Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morse Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Malkin Fund Inc.
- Where is Morse Family Foundation Inc based?
- Morse Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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