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Richard S Morrison Foundation at a glance

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Richard S Morrison 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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$510kEducation$205kHealth$126kHuman Services$30kScience & Tech$30kCrime & Legal$16kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$16,432
Median grant
2
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc$25,000
Kirtland Police Associates$16,432
STROKINGMYSTILETTOS INC$5,300
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$1,000
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 (FY19–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $25k → 11%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$358k · 9 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$358k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+189%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $170k · revenue +50%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +43%
  • MM
    MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TA
    THE ASHTABULA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +321%
  • AC
    ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +189%
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
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
2
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
3
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
4
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare.…

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
8
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashtabula County Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Ashtabula 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $170,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNI…MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER: $30,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES …Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual g…KIRTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATES: $16,432 · OtherKIRTLAND POL…LAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherLAKE HEALTH …CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CL…STROKINGMYSTILETTOS INC: $5,300 · Other+4 more: $2,300 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,600 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASHTABULA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe Musical Arts Association: $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$500,000Education$205,000Other$106,032Health$67,100Human Services$55,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard S Morrison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard S Morrison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–25%
    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 22 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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