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Richard P & Claire W Morse 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.

$452k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
14
Organizations funded FY2022
36%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 36
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$9.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 36% of the organizations Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202214$446k36%
FY202136$459kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$476kHealth$329kEducation$36kCivil Rights$30kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$225,50020%
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$125,00010%
Wellesley College$30,00020%
American Jewish Committee$15,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$15,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$15,00010%
Rosie's Place Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$5,00010%
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc$3,50010%
The Roxbury Latin School$2,50010%
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All grantees of Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$225,50020%
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$125,00010%
Wellesley College$30,00020%
American Jewish Committee$15,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$15,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$15,00010%
Rosie's Place Inc$5,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$5,00010%
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc$3,50010%
The Roxbury Latin School$2,50010%
New England Conservatory of Music$2,25010%
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc$2,00020%
Adolescent Consultation Services Inc$2,00020%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$1,35020%
Protect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc$1,00010%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$1,00010%
Athletes Unlimited Newton Ma Inc$1,00011%
The American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc$1,00010%
Brookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation$1,00010%
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc$1,00010%
The Brookline Library Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Country Club Employee Education Fund Inc$1,00010%
Riverside Community Care Inc$50010%
Music for Food Inc$50011%
Teton Raptor Center$50010%
Project STEP Inc$50010%
Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc$25010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$25010%
Park School Corporation$25010%
Stray Pets in Need of Ma Inc$20010%
Congregation Adath Israel Temple Israel$1501n/a
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $225,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Teton Music Festival Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Roxbury Latin School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdolescent Consultation Services Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthletes Unlimited Newton Ma Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJoslin Diabetes Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookline Library Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Country Club Employee Education Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiverside Community Care Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic for Food Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTeton Raptor Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject STEP Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark School Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStray Pets in Need of Ma Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Aquidneck FoundationThe Hamilton Company …Bny Mellon Charitable…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Boston Foundation IncMA19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Aquidneck Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation

How much does Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation give?
Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $451,650 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (15%), Education (2%).
Who are Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($226k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($125k), Wellesley College ($30k).
Does Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation based?
Richard P & Claire W Morse Foundation is based in MA.

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 43 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $372k 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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