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Morton Feldman Foundation at a glance

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Morton Feldman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$468kEducation$98kInternational$80kPhilanthropy$27kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$20k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRATHAM USA$25,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS &$12,500
MERCY SHIPS$10,000
WAYCOOLANGELS INC$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 9%AMERICA GIVES INC: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $15k → 12%WAYCOOLANGELS INC: $10k → 14%IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%PRATHAM USA: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS &: $13k → 14%SMILE TRAIN: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $13k → 12%WAYCOOLANGELS INC: $8k → 14%IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%PRATHAM USA: $25k → 16%SMILE TRAIN: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $10k → 12%CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS: $35k → 14%IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%PRATHAM USA: $25k → 16%SMILE TRAIN: $5k → 17%HEART GIFT FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $8k → 12%CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINICAL OPERATIONS: $33k → 14%IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%SMILE TRAIN INC: $3k → 17%HEART GIFT FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $6k → 12%CHILRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%SMILE TRAIN: $3k → 17%HEART GIFT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MERCY SHIPS: $6k → 12%HEART GIFT FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $85k → 10%CMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $50k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $35k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 10%CMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $8k → 10%CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%GATEWAY AUSTIN CHURCH: $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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$638k · 11 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$638k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
0%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyReligionInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HF
    HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +236%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
Gift of Life International Inc

To further the cause of world peace and understanding by facilitating free medical services, primarily to children suffering from heart defects and other similar or allied illnesses regardless of race, gender, creed, or national origin,…

Health
7
Lifegift Organ Donation Center

The mission of lifegift is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life. lifegift also provides public and professional education…

Health
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
11
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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12
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $140,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONSMILE TRAIN INC: $35,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $12,500 · Other+3 more: $11,000 · OtherHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $107,500 · HealthHEARTGIFT FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $67,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXASCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $46,050 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthPRATHAM USA: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USAAMERICA GIVES INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES IN…IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT AUSTIN FO…Mercy Ships International: $57,000 · InternationalMercy Shi…WayCoolAngels Inc: $17,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$283,500Health$223,050Philanthropy$102,000International$57,000Religion$27,500Public Safety & Disaster$20,000

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 budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $107,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $46,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWayCoolAngels Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Morton Feldman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morton Feldman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 19 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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