· Private foundation
Rosalie S Morris 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christ Church Episcopal | $16,550 |
| Brevard Music Center | $10,000 |
| Bethesda Academy | $600 |
| National Society of Colonial Dames | $220 |
| Trustees Garden Club | $190 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $100 |
| Savannah Chapter of NSDAR | $93 |
| National Society of Colonial Dames - Savannah Town Comittee | $60 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BMBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED3× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
- SPSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION3× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +71%
- SVSAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- SCSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +8%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
The savannah music festival is dedicated to presenting a world-class celebration of the musical arts by creating timeless and adventurous productions that stimulate arts education, foster economic growth, and unite artists and audiences in…
Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The southeastern museums conference is a networking organization that serves to foster professionalism, mutual support, and communication. a non-profit membership association, semc strives to increase educational and professional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Savannah Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF GA ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Farmers Market Inc ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rosalie S Morris Foundation 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.
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.