· Private foundation
The Kathleen L Morrison Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Borders | $5,000 |
| Providence St Mel School | $2,500 |
| American Indian College Fund | $2,000 |
| Regina Dominican High School | $2,000 |
| Gift of Adoption | $2,000 |
| CARE | $2,000 |
| UNICEF | $2,000 |
| Casa EsperanzaHouse of Hope | $1,000 |
| Chicago Coalition for the Homeless | $1,000 |
| Misericordia | $1,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $1,000 |
| Giffords Courage to Fight Gun Violence | $1,000 |
| Feeding America | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Chicago | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSProvidence St Mel School5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +1%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +39%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TCTeen Challenge Illinoisgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +49%
- KFK9s for Veteransone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
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Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge Illinois ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kathleen L Morrison Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kathleen L Morrison Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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