California · Private foundation
Morse Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $34k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $402k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Morse Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 12 | $26k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $40k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $21k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zen Peacemakers Inc | $33,500 | 5 | n/a |
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of the East Bay | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Value Culture | $4,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tree of Life Foundation | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | $4,250 | 3 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand | $2,750 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zen Peacemakers Inc | $33,500 | 5 | n/a |
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of the East Bay | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Value Culture | $4,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tree of Life Foundation | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | $4,250 | 3 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand | $2,750 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| A Jewish Voice for Peace | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Jerusalem Fund Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), 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.
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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 14 grants totaling $33,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Morse Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (20%).
- Who are Morse Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Zen Peacemakers Inc ($34k), The Contemporary Jewish Museum ($21k), Jewish Community Center of the East Bay ($6k).
- Does Morse Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% 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 American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Morse Family Foundation Inc based?
- Morse Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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