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Newth & Claudia Morris Foundation at a glance

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Newth & Claudia Morris Foundation

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.

$224k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$214kHealth$171kReligion$106kRecreation & Sports$20kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$11kInternational$11kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
$5,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$33,164
HIS HEART MISSIONS$30,000
RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY$25,000
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION$25,000
CHOC FOUNDATION$17,000
LAGUNA BEACH WATER POLO FOUNDATION$10,000
SURFERS HEALING FOUNDATION$10,000
AXEALS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION$10,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$8,480
THURSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,500
MAMMOTH MOUNDATION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
PROJECT ACCESS INC$5,000
SCHOOL POWER LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS OF LAGUNA BEACH$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) 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%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $3k → 10%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 12%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $3k → 10%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $1k → 10%HOPE IN MOTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 10%HOPE IN MOTION INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$584k · 19 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$584k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+9%

Still filing today

63%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • CS
    COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +9%
  • RA
    Randolph-Macon Academy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +29%
  • TA
    THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -46%
  • AT
    Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +15%
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
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
2
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
3
Disability Rights California

Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.

Civil Rights
4
Mentis

Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.

Human Services
5
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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6
Orange County Technology Action Network

Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…

Community Improvement
7
Alpha Treatment Centers

Alpha treatment centers is a california non-profit corporation set up for the general purpose of the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable, and/or educational purposes.

Human Services
8
Capability Health & Human Services

Capability health and human services is dedicated to providing transformational and life enhancing services to children and adults with disabilities facing a physical, mental, or social limitation.

Human Services
9
Essential Access Health

Essential access advances reproductive equity and champions quality sexual and reproductive health care for everyone, everywhere.

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10
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
11
Accessia Health

The mission of accessia health is to provide the financial safety net, products, services, and assistance to patients and families living with chronic medical conditions. we set a vision that all people have equitable access to healthcare.

Health
12
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Linternita Foundation Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $101,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIS HEART MISSIONS: $90,000 · OtherHIS HEART MISSIONSEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $33,164 · OtherEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+17 more: $84,350 · Other+17 moreCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDA…Randolph-Macon Academy: $90,000 · EducationRandolph-Macon AcademyACCESS MAMMOTH: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $43,000 · HealthTHE AUTISM COMMU…Surfers Healing Foundation Inc: $40,000 · HealthSurfers Healing …CHOC FOUNDATION: $17,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION+1 more: $3,000 · HealthJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsLAGUNA BEACH WATER POLO FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsProject Access Inc: $16,500 · Community ImprovementLinternita Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Community ImprovementHOPE IN MOTION INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 · Human ServicesLATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $6,000 · Human ServicesMOMCO GLOBAL INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $9,485 · Civil Rights
Other$324,014Education$193,500Health$103,000Recreation & Sports$25,500Community Improvement$18,000Human Services$16,500Civil Rights$9,485

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRandolph-Macon Academy: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $43,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $33,164 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Access Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH WATER POLO FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetaxeALS Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $9,485 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE IN MOTION INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS MAMMOTH: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPTA CA Congress of Parents & Teachers Thurston Middle School: $5,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtaxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDO CANCER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCIVILIZATION WORKS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMCO GLOBAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLinternita Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY WOMEN'S CHORUS: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Orange County Communi…Sempra FoundationCalifornia Community …AbbVie FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Orange County Community FoundationCA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Newth & Claudia Morris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newth & Claudia Morris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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 37 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.

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