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Robert and Karen Morgan Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Karen Morgan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$82k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$196kReligion$52kHuman Services$51kInternational$10kArts & Culture$7kEnvironment$5kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$82,217
WE CAN$15,000
HAMMER RESIDENCES$10,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
DELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CROSS GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES$5,000
CHOPS INC$5,000
MOUND WESTONKA ROTARY FOUNDATION$4,400
ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER$2,500
WESTONKA FOOD SHELF$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WE CAN: $15k → 11%WE CAN: $10k → 11%WE CAN: $10k → 11%WE CAN: $10k → 11%CROSS GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $10k → 11%CROSS GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $5k → 11%CROSS GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $5k → 11%CROSS GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $10k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
IN
PA
AZ
NC
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 9 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$443k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $256k · revenue +57%
  • WC
    WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +42%
  • CD
    CROSS-GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WT
    Wine to Watergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
  • HO
    HEART OF GOD MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +3%
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
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
2
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Hisis
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5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
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
7
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
8
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
9
Roseman University of Health Sciences

Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nepsis Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $256,420 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc: $23,000 · EducationDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation IncHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN …WESTONKA FOOD SHELF: $7,500 · OtherWESTONKA FOOD SHELFHILLSIDE COLLEGE: $7,500 · OtherHILLSIDE COLLEGEWESTONKA COMMUNITY EDUCATION YOUTH SPORTS & RECREATION: $7,000 · OtherWESTONKA COMMUNITY EDUC…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherMOUND-WESTONKA ROTARY FOUNDATION: $4,400 · Other+11 more: $17,500 · Other+11 moreWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITI…CROSS-GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $25,000 · Human ServicesCROSS-GENERATION …Hammer Residences Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHammer Residences…CHOPS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalWine to Water: $5,000 · Environment
Education$289,420Other$108,900Human Services$80,000Arts & Culture$12,000Public Benefit$10,000International$10,000Environment$5,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $256,420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCROSS-GENERATION DBA CONNECTED FAMILIES: $25,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHOPS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWine to Water: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF GOD MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Robert and Karen Morgan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Karen Morgan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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 27 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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