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Morse Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$42kArts & Culture$37kEducation$33kHuman Services$30kInternational$22kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$500
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$402k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$5,750
ZEN PEACEMAKERS$5,500
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN GURION UNIVERSITY$5,000
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM$3,500
HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$2,250
MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM$1,750
VALUE CULTURE INC$1,250
HAND IN HAND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$750
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$750
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY$500
JERUSALEM FUND INC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $2k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $1k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $500 → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $500 → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Morse Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 29%.

Morse Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 14 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$125k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+41%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +585%
  • JF
    JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +2%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • HI
    HIAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +41%
  • JF
    JERUSALEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

1
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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4
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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5
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
6
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
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
9
Jewish Life Foundation
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10
University of Judaism Foundation
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11
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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12
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jerusalem Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Value Culture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZEN PEACEMAKERS INC: $33,500 · OtherZEN PEACEMAKERS INCAMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN GURION UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN GURION UNIVERSITYHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $9,500 · OtherHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETYAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN GURION UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN GURION UNIVERSITYValue Culture: $4,250 · Other+5 more: $8,750 · Other+5 moreTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JE…TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,250 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LIFE FOUNDA…NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BO…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $16,250 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDHIAS INC: $3,500 · InternationalHIAS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $2,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE F…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $12,250 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $5,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMU…JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $4,250 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,500 · Civil RightsTHE JERUSALEM FUND INC: $500 · Religion
Other$88,500Arts & Culture$28,750International$24,250Human Services$17,750Civil Rights$6,750Religion$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $16,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetValue Culture: $4,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $4,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $2,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
  • Who funds Value Culture ↗
  • Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
  • Who funds THE JERUSALEM FUND INC ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Morse Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Morse Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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