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Rosalie S Morris Foundation at a glance

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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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$156kArts & Culture$39kEducation$10kEnvironment$5kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$600Human Services$100Food & Nutrition$50
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$220
Median grant
3
States reached
$486k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAYO CLINIC: $1k → 9%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $250 → 14%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $1k → 15%Brevard Music Center: $10k → 13%NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $500 → 13%HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION: $200 → 16%Brevard Music Center: $5k → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1k → 13%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%Savannah Country Day School: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY: $1k → 16%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%Bethesda Academy: $600 → 16%FERGUSON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH: $200 → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $22k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $20k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $19k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $17k → 16%Christ Church Episcopal: $17k → 16%Christ Church Episcopal: $17k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $15k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $15k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $14k → 16%Savannah Philharmonic: $10k → 16%SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC: $4k → 16%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $1k → 16%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $1k → 16%SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC: $1k → 16%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $590 → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $500 → 16%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $288 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $260 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $260 → 16%MASSIE HERITAGE CENTER: $250 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $250 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $250 → 16%National Society of Colonial Dames: $220 → 16%National Society of Colonial Dames: $220 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $210 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $210 → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES: $210 → 16%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $190 → 16%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 10 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$205k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BM
    BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED
    3× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • SP
    SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • SV
    SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • SC
    SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +8%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
2
Savannah Music Festivalinc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Georgia Historical Society

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…

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4
Atlanta Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Savannah Museum of African Art Inc
Arts & Culture
6
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Georgia Conservancy Inc

To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.

Environment
8
Friends of Ga State Parks & Histori

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…

Human Services
9
Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment
10
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
11
Southeastern Museums Conference

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Hibernian Society of Savannah Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Savannah Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $155,290 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPALBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $15,125 · OtherBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $7,300 · Other+15 more: $7,383 · OtherSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $14,500 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH P…SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH V…+1 more: $120 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC: $4,508 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $500 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 · HealthHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $200 · HealthCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $50 · HealthNORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC: $100 · PhilanthropyForsyth Farmers Market Inc: $50 · Food & Nutrition
Other$185,098Arts & Culture$19,620Environment$4,608Education$2,500Health$1,250Philanthropy$600Food & Nutrition$50

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 budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $15,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $14,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC: $4,508 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF GA: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Farmers Market Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $50 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.

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.

The Savannah Communit…Colonial Foundation I…John G Kennedy Founda…Georgia Power Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rosalie S Morris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosalie S Morris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 32 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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