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Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation at a glance

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Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$123kHuman Services$96kHealth$81kEducation$39kCrime & Legal$34kInternational$33kYouth Development$33kEnvironment$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHELLE'S LOVE$7,420
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER$7,420
LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE - CORVALLIS$7,420
Individual grant recipient$5,420
PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES$4,000
ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT$4,000
JACKSON STREET YOUTH SERVICES$4,000
CASA OF LINN COUNTY$4,000
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$3,710
BRADLEY ANGLE$3,710
TRANSITION PROJECTS$2,650
LINES FOR LIFE$2,650
CRAG RATS$2,650
GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION$2,650
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$2,650
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 (FY17–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 8%GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $7k → 14%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $2k → 15%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 18%ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 13%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 18%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 18%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 18%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $6k → 13%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $5k → 12%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $3k → 12%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $6k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $2k → 12%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $6k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $5k → 13%BRADLEY ANGLE: $4k → 12%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $5k → 13%ABC HOUSE (ALL BECAUSE OF CHILDREN): $4k → 13%ABC HOUSE DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $3k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
OR
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
GA
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 18% of Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 64%.

Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$384k · 25 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
33

Total granted

$384k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+40%

Still filing today

68%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • TP
    Transition Projects Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +114%
  • CASA OF LINN COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +28%
  • SF
    SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • HF
    Honnold Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +36%
  • FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +47%
  • C(
    CASA (COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES)
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Mcminnville Area Habitat for Humanity

To build partnerships among volunteers, families, and the community in order to build simple, decent houses for families in need.

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3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
5
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
6
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
7
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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8
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
9
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals
10
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
11
Beyond These Walls

Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Benton Furniture Share. 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

42 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. 42 of the 64 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Transition Projects Inc: $43,900 · OtherTransition Projects IncFIRST CHRISTIAN PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL: $14,500 · OtherFIRST CHRISTIAN PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOLPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $12,175 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $9,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,420 · OtherHonnold Foundation: $8,500 · OtherLINN BENTON FOOD SHARE: $10,940 · Other+31 more: $107,250 · Other+31 moreABC HOUSE INC: $42,900 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE INCALBANY HELPING HANDS: $19,750 · Human ServicesALBANY HELPING HANDSPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SER…FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $9,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACA…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $7,350 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS …SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesGRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $5,150 · Human Services+3 more: $9,230 · Human Services+3 moreCATALYST PARTNERSHIPS: $26,800 · Housing & ShelterCATALYST PART…JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterJACKSON STREE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ALBANY AREA: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR H…CREATING HOUSING COALITION: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCREATING HOUS…EUGENE MISSION INC: $3,675 · Housing & ShelterEUGENE MISSIO…FISH OF ALBANY INC: $3,520 · Housing & ShelterFISH OF ALBAN…SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 · HealthSJOGREN'S F…MICHELLES LOVE: $14,420 · HealthMICHELLES L…Lines for Life: $7,150 · HealthLines for L…MERCY HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · HealthCASA OF LINN COUNTY INC: $34,300 · Civil RightsMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $28,450 · InternationalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER: $7,420 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER SANTIAM: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$216,385Human Services$112,380Housing & Shelter$64,995Health$52,070Civil Rights$34,300International$28,450Youth Development$23,420

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTransition Projects Inc: $43,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetABC HOUSE INC: $42,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF LINN COUNTY INC: $34,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $28,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST PARTNERSHIPS: $26,800 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetJACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALBANY HELPING HANDS: $19,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMICHELLES LOVE: $14,420 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLINN BENTON FOOD SHARE: $10,940 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $9,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER: $7,420 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $7,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLines for Life: $7,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER SANTIAM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ALBANY AREA: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT IMAHARA STEAM FOUNDATION: $5,150 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHEART FOR AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS BUILD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATING HOUSING COALITION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBradley Angle: $3,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $3,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $3,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF ALBANY INC: $3,520 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBENTON FURNITURE SHARE: $3,520 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LINN BENTON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES: $3,520 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPDXWildlife: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAG Rats: $2,650 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…The Roundhouse Founda…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Benton Community Foun…Meyer Memorial TrustAssurant FoundationBarbara Emily Knudson…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR45.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Benton Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Assurant Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson 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 Frank & Linda Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse Frank & Linda Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Youth Empowerment Shelter: 65% of income from government
  • Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Crag Rats: 41% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services: 35% of income from government
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam: 14% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
  • Albany Helping Hands: 8% of income from government
  • Mercy House International Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest: 5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Casa of Linn County Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $70k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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