· Private foundation
The Morf 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $650k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND | $1,000,000 |
| THE FILM FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| UCLFAA INC | $150,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| DIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LA FAMILY HOUSING | $50,000 |
| MY FRIEND'S PLACE | $50,000 |
| THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR ETHICS AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP | $40,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +4% · 36% of their budget
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +78%
- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +293%
Funded once
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +10%- EFEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORTone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -55%
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.
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Sag-aftra members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists.
The charitable arm of the tv academy, the academy of television arts & sciences foundation, is dedicated to preserving television while educating and inspiring future leaders.
The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
The entertainment community fund is a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. (continued in schedule o).
To recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 THE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BFI AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The School for Ethics and Global Leadership ↗
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Morf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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