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The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
18%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$169k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 18% of the organizations The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201811$3.5M18%
FY201716$304kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$410kHealth$255kCommunity Improvement$75kReligion$31kSocial Science$25kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Salve Regina University$1,025,00021%
Straus Historical Society$410,000284%
Promise Project Inc$250,0002n/a
The Hotchkiss School$110,00020%
The Andrew K Dwyer Foundation$105,000213%
Citizens Committee for New York City Inc$75,00012%
Temple Emanu-El$31,0002n/a
St Hildas and St Hughs School$25,0001n/a
Brooklyn Jesuit Prep$20,00012%
Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Salve Regina University$1,025,00021%
Straus Historical Society$410,000284%
Promise Project Inc$250,0002n/a
The Hotchkiss School$110,00020%
The Andrew K Dwyer Foundation$105,000213%
Citizens Committee for New York City Inc$75,00012%
Temple Emanu-El$31,0002n/a
St Hildas and St Hughs School$25,0001n/a
Brooklyn Jesuit Prep$20,00012%
Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc$10,0001n/a
De la Salle Academy$10,00010%
Exodus School$10,00010%
The Bubba Fund Inc$5,000185%
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc$3,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalve Regina University: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStraus Historical Society: $410,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Andrew K Dwyer Foundation: $105,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCitizens Committee for New York City Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBrooklyn Jesuit Prep: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDe la Salle Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetExodus School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Bubba Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $3,000 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 10.

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 Bessemer Giving FundNJ16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus

How much does The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus give?
The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus reported 11 grants totaling $3,490,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (59%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (7%).
Who are The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Salve Regina University ($1.0M), Straus Historical Society ($410k), Promise Project Inc ($250k).
Does The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus based?
The David & Mildred Morse Charitable Trust C/O Joan Straus is based in NY.

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 18 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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