· Private foundation
Claire and Theodore Morse 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 $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOLLAND PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $12,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES | $12,500 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| AFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING | $10,000 |
| MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS CDC | $10,000 |
| THE PLAY EQUITY FUND | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $5,000 |
| FRONT PORCH COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE RIVER HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY | $5,000 |
| SPLASH YOUTH ARTS WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| ARTS CORPS | $5,000 |
| ARTMIX INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- NYNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART5× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +12%
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +99%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON5× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- WCWe Care Arts Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +30%
- MAMovement Alliance Project- YASPone grant, 2022 · $15k
- PAPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
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.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
To provide space for artists to work and to engage community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
Gage educates, enriches, & transforms our community through the visual arts.
The Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland aims to ensure the arts are a fundamental part of the community by providing quality, hands-on art experiences, particularly for children at risk academically or in underserved areas. Their…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Aging Network - Nc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 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. 142 of the 165 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 NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shadhika Project ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLLAND PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Extraordinary Families ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
- Who funds EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANDS HEALING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds Richmond Art Center ↗
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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Buddy Taub Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Rdk Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Shelter Partnership Inc
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 Claire and Theodore Morse 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Dimensions Variable (Dv) — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ifcm Corp — 7% of income from government
- Artists in Residence in Everglades Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artist Mentorship Program — 2% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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