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Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn

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.

$360k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$319k42%
FY20249$571k11%
FY202317$618k24%
FY202217$535k0%
FY202117$355k24%
FY202014$556kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.0MEnvironment$1.9MArts & Culture$936kPhilanthropy$600kHealth$200Animals$170

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $1,107,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMary Baldwin University: $840,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Carolina: $310,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCharlotte Symphony Orchestra Society Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRoanoke College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Youth Ballet Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Shakespeare Center: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Artist Book Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCharlotte Museum of History: $1,700 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetChamber Music - Calin Lupanu and Monica Boboc: $800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCharlotte Master Chorale: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPreserve Mecklenburg Inc: $350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMint Museum of Art Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Raptor Center Inc: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $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 17.

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust · The Dickson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

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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Find your warmest path to Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn

How much does Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn give?
Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn reported 14 grants totaling $360,470 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Environment (35%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Queens University of Charlotte ($1.1M), Mary Baldwin University ($840k), Opera Carolina ($310k).
Does Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn 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 Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn based?
Robert Haywood Morrison Fdn is based in NC.

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 30 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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