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The Morkal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MASTER'S UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,600 |
| CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| WESTERN GOVERNOR'S UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES | $6,923 |
| FOOTHILL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| EASTERN SIERRA PEACE OFFICERS ASSN | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| COME TO LIFE HOME SCHOOL GROUP | $5,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $5,000 |
| BISHOP CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAMP JOY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MUMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +48%
- CCClear Creek Baptist Bible College Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +83%
- CBCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- USUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +51%
- FSFLATIRON SCHOOL LLCone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Baptist University and the most unlike its peers is Camp Joy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Master's University and Seminary ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP JOY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Resnick Family Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Morkal Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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