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The Morey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Morey Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$637k
Granted FY2023
26
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$938kHuman Services$419kEducation$414kRecreation & Sports$244kHealth$207kYouth Development$168kFood & Nutrition$64kPhilanthropy$36kOther$0
02FY2023 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $596,990, the rows itemized in this filing. The $636,590 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k22 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $536k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mackinac Center for Public Policy$210,000
MyMichigan Health Foundation$200,000
Isabella County Youth and Farm Fair$126,123
Father Maloney's Boys & Girls Haven$12,000
Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation$5,000
Morey Courts Recreation Center$5,000
Anna Maria Elementary School PTO$5,000
The Center of Anna Maria Island$5,000
Mid Michigan Community College$5,000
Mt. Pleasant Chapter of SPEBSQSA, Inc.$5,000
Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum$2,500
Life Choices of Central MI$2,500
Blessings in a Backpack$2,000
Dreams With Wings, Inc.$1,500
Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island$1,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANNA MARIA ELEMENTARY PTO: $4k → 10%HAWTHORNE PAC: $2k → 8%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250k → 9%MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $250k → 17%FREMONT TOWNSHIP EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2k → 18%SHEPHERD HIGH SCHOOL: $300 → 19%HOPE SERVICES: $2k → 15%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT: $560k → 19%MOREY COURTS RECREATION CENTER: $100k → 19%MOREY COURTS RECREATION CENTER: $5k → 19%MT PLEASANT DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $3k → 19%HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY: $3k → 19%JOHN H GOODROW FUND: $1k → 19%SACRED HEART ACADEMY: $680 → 19%CMMA: $600 → 19%SMOOTH SURFACES: $500 → 19%MT PLEASANT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERC: $500 → 19%MOUNTAINTOWN SINGERS: $400 → 19%ISABELLA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $100 → 19%WINN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $750 → 19%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 25 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$3.2M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+85%

Still filing today

36%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • AM
    ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +112%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IC
    Isabella County Fair and Farm Fair
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • FT
    Fremont Township Fire & Rescue
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • IC
    ISABELLA COUNTY LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS
    one grant, 2019 · $52k
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
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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2
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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3
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified
4
Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors

Member association whose purpose is to promote common good and welfare of its members in their activities in the profession of surveying and to promote and maintain high standards of professional practices and ethics.

—
5
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
7
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
8
Michigan Primary Care Association

To ensure the delivery of excellent care that advances health outcomes.

Health
9
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

—
10
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
12
Michigan Farm Bureau

Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Smooth Surfaces. 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

22 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. 22 of the 57 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRC of Isabella County: $905,687 · OtherCRC of Isabella CountyMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $380,000 · OtherMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGEIsabella County Youth and Farm Fair: $240,820 · OtherIsabella County Youth and Farm FairMOREY COURTS RECREATION CENTER: $130,000 · OtherMOREY COURTS RECREATION CENTERIsabella County Fair and Farm Fair: $100,461 · OtherFremont Township Fire & Rescue: $75,000 · Other+41 more: $232,932 · Other+41 moreMACKINAC CENTER: $1,150,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTERMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $275,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthMt Pleasant Area Community Fnd: $40,625 · PhilanthropyANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,700 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDREAMS WITH WINGS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGallatin Elite Soccer Club: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGallatin Valley Farm to School: $7,500 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,064,900Public Benefit$1,150,000Health$279,000Philanthropy$40,625Human Services$17,200Recreation & Sports$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $1,150,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMt Pleasant Area Community Fnd: $40,625 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGallatin Valley Farm to School: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMount Pleasant Discovery Museum: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNorthwood University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Michigan Manufacturers Association: $2,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMT PLEASANT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,080 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJohn H Goodrow Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMS WITH WINGS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT PLEASANT PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMT PLEASANT MI CHAPTER OF SPEBSQSA INC: $400 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetISABELLA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $200 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
  • Who funds Gallatin Elite Soccer Club ↗
  • Who funds ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Gallatin Valley Farm to School ↗
  • Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
  • Who funds Anna Maria Elementary PTO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwood University ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Michigan Manufacturers Association ↗
  • Who funds MT PLEASANT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds John H Goodrow Fund ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK 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.

Mt Pleasant Area Comm…Fabiano FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Mercantile Bank F…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mt Pleasant Area Community FndMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Fabiano Foundation · United Way of Greater Central Michigan · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Morey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Morey 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 57 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $560k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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