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The Eleanor & Howard Morgan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Eleanor & Howard Morgan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
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 2024.

Education$941kArts & Culture$285kScience & Tech$150kEnvironment$100kPhilanthropy$50kPublic Benefit$24kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$150,000
PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC$25,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER$25,000
JEWISH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$25,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$18,000
54 BELOW INC$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $500 → 9%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 5 repeat orgs$789k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$771k
$614k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2019–2024 · $573k · revenue +50%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +61%
  • JC
    JEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CU
    CORRNELL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • S
    SILVERLININGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +198%
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +9%
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Math for America. 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $573,000 · EducationCornell UniversityHorace Mann School: $35,000 · EducationHorace Mann School+2 more: $30,000 · EducationCORRNELL UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherCORRNELL UNIVERSITYJBN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherJBN FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $26,000 · Other+5 morePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $78,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER …WGBH Educational Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Fou…JEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH CHILDRENS MUS…54 BELOW INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture54 BELOW INCNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADI…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENT…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $17,129 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF M…COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $150,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR…SILVERLINING: $100,000 · Science & TechSILVERLININGAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · Social ScienceCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $500 · Human Services
Education$638,000Other$376,000Arts & Culture$285,129Science & Tech$250,000Social Science$10,000Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $573,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILVERLINING: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $78,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget54 BELOW INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHorace Mann School: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATH FOR AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $17,129 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $10,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eleanor & Howard Morgan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eleanor & Howard Morgan Family 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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