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The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$12MPublic Benefit$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MEducation$1.2MCommunity Improvement$447kHousing & Shelter$265kHuman Services$261kReligion$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $611k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $651k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEOMED FOUNDATION$1,200,000
TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER$195,000
SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER$124,890
Individual grant recipient$120,347
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CNT OF AKRON$86,250
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
AKRON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION$50,000
NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES$47,587
THE CENTERS$47,500
NAMI - STARK COUNTY$45,000
NAMI - GREATER CLEVELAND$40,000
BLICK CLINIC$37,500
SUMMIT ARTSPACE$36,000
MH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION$30,000
ARTSNOW$30,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $426k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NAMI - GEAUGA COUNTY INC: $10k → 6%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $30k → 9%APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 11%NAMI - GEAUGA COUNTY: $30k → 6%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $16k → 9%CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO: $8k → 10%NAMI - GEAUGA COUNTY: $8k → 6%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $16k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $23k → 19%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $15k → 9%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $15k → 9%EXTENDED HOUSING INC: $15k → 9%ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 17%THE CENTERS: $48k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $48k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $35k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $30k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $30k → 17%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $15k → 17%CHOICES A COMMUNITY SOCIAL CENTER: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 69 repeat orgs$832k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
31

Total granted

$17M
$766k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

74%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • TL
    THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +52%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $910k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • RM
    RIVEON MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -17%
  • CF
    COLLEGE FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Nami of Southwest Ohio

Provide education, support and advocacy to those affected by mental illness.

Health
2
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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3
Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center

To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.

Health
4
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
5
Nami of Richland County Ohio

Our mission is to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with mental illness, and to support their families.

Health
6
Emerge Ministries Inc

To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…

Human Services
7
Nami Mid-Ohio

Nami mid-ohio provides a community of support to individuals and families affected by mental health conditions, helping them navigate their journey toward a fulfilling life.

Human Services
8
Ohio Center for Hope

To promote mental health research in medical developments

Health
9
Beck Center for the Arts

To inspire, enrich, and transform lives through dynamic arts experiences.

Arts & Culture
10
Columbiana County Mental Health Clinic

The mission of the columbiana county mental health clinic is to improve the lives of individuals and families by meeting the behavioral health needs of our community. this is accomplished through: 1) excellent customer service, 2)…

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11
Oberlin Choristers

Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is None Too Fragile 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

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 104 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
57/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEOMED FOUNDATION: $6,606,106 · OtherNEOMED FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $524,918 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+36 more: $2,108,315 · Other+36 moreTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $910,000 · HealthTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENT…COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $780,000 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SE…Active Minds Inc: $600,000 · HealthActive Minds IncCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $336,250 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MED…PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $205,000 · HealthPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL…NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $200,000 · HealthRIVEON MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY: $150,000 · HealthNAMI STARK COUNTY INC: $135,000 · HealthBLICK CLINIC INC: $127,500 · Health+11 more: $313,000 · Health+11 moreTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEBRON J…+2 more: $60,000 · Public BenefitBallet Theatre of Ohio Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER: $140,000 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSEUM: $120,000 · Arts & CultureTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureRUBBER CITY SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $79,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $79,000 · Arts & CultureSummit Choral Society Inc: $77,500 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT ARTSPACE: $66,000 · Arts & CultureNONE TOO FRAGILE INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $318,000 · Arts & CultureKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 · EducationWalsh University Inc: $57,760 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $157,587 · Human ServicesEXTENDED HOUSING INC: $107,000 · Human ServicesNAMI GEAUGA COUNTY: $48,000 · Human ServicesThe Centers for Families and Children: $47,500 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $22,500 · Human ServicesST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesAKRON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP: $67,625 · Community ImprovementTHE COLLEGE FOR BEHAVORIAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE OF HEALING: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$9,239,339Health$3,756,750Public Benefit$2,060,000Arts & Culture$1,372,500Education$1,212,760Human Services$425,587Community Improvement$232,625

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $910,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $780,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $336,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Summit County: $297,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $205,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $200,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $157,587 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBallet Theatre of Ohio Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRIVEON MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER: $140,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetNAMI STARK COUNTY INC: $135,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetBLICK CLINIC INC: $127,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $120,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER: $119,700 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEXTENDED HOUSING INC: $107,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER: $105,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetRUBBER CITY SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $79,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $79,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSummit Choral Society Inc: $77,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP: $67,625 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSUMMIT ARTSPACE: $66,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $59,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWalsh University Inc: $57,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNONE TOO FRAGILE INC: $53,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOR BEHAVORIAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNAMI GEAUGA COUNTY: $48,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $47,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $45,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetWEATHERVANE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $45,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetAdvocacy Choices and Empowerment Inc: $43,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetGREENLEAF FAMILY CENTER: $43,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetArt Sparks: $40,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN M FOUNDATION: $39,725 over 1y, 49% of budgetARTSNOW: $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetChildrens Concert Society: $30,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetAPOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAKRON SYMPHONIC WINDS: $28,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetOpen Tone Music: $27,000 over 2y, 3.7% 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.

  • Who funds THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
  • Who funds NAMI Summit County ↗
  • Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Ballet Theatre of Ohio Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIVEON MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NAMI STARK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLICK CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EXTENDED HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds MINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RUBBER CITY SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Summit Choral Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…The Welty Family Foun…Gar FoundationSisler McFawn Foundat…Mary S & David C Corb…Charles E and Mabel M…The Cleveland Foundat…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…The Char and Chuck Fo…ArtsnowLehner Family Foundat…
Akron Community FoundationOH77.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Cleveland Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Artsnow · Lehner Family 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 Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    39report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 104 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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