· Private foundation
Morse Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Morse Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Morse Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| HOME FOR CHILDREN | $6,000 |
| EL BUEN SAMARITANO EPISCOPAL MISSION | $5,271 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES | $4,000 |
| AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| HOSPICE AUSTIN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 67% of Morse Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +27%
- FCFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +99%
- TSTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB6× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PBPHI BETA KAPPA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GREATER AUSTINone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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 mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
A faithful presence afp is an organization that provides holistic spiritual care, community building, and trauma-informed advocacy for our formerly homeless neighbors while training other communities to do the same.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
The fund is a type 1 supporting organization of hospice austin. assets of the fund are used for maintenance, support, and operations of hospice austin programs.
Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Caritas of austin provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
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: United Way for Greater Austin · Austin Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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