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Peter A Morton 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$2.2MEnvironment$376kAnimals$200kScience & Tech$200kArts & Culture$112kHealth$76kCrime & Legal$67kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$998
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACMA$100,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INNOCENT PROJECT: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 11 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+89%

Still filing today

55%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +37%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $180k · revenue +12%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $60k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • UH
    UCLA Health System Board
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • NB
    NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION (NBCC) FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • UV
    UCLA - VISIONARY BALL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research Inc

Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…

Health
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

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
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tutwiler Clinc 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION — $1,325,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $180,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERTHE REGENTS AT THE UCLA — $600,000 · OtherTHE REGENTS AT THE UCLAVETPAW INC — $190,000 · OtherVETPAW INCNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) — $175,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)LACMA — $112,000 · OtherLACMA+10 more — $94,001 · Other+10 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $200,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $60,295 · Human ServicesPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ORCHID FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,755,000Other$1,171,001Environment$201,000Human Services$60,295Food & Nutrition$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVETPAW INC — $190,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $60,295 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTutwiler Clinc Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds VETPAW INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION
  • Who funds Tutwiler Clinc Inc
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
  • Who funds THE ORCHID FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds HAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Peter A Morton Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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