Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Morningside Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $19M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $420,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Morningside Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $19M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $5.3M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $60M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $65M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $47M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winthrop Park School Inc | $12,708,500 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $8,000,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Church in Irving | $5,100,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Church in Anaheim | $3,740,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Church in Atlanta Inc | $2,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wps Institute Inc | $1,675,838 | 1 | n/a |
| The Church in Cambridge Inc | $1,565,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $1,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Ir David Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Church in Santa Ana Corporation | $219,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winthrop Park School Inc | $12,708,500 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $8,000,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Church in Irving | $5,100,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Church in Anaheim | $3,740,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Church in Atlanta Inc | $2,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wps Institute Inc | $1,675,838 | 1 | n/a |
| The Church in Cambridge Inc | $1,565,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $1,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Ir David Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Church in Santa Ana Corporation | $219,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Design Museum of Chicago | $200,000 | 1 | 37% |
| The Colrain Meeting Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Church in Newton | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Defense and Confirmation Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Morningside Music Bridge Inc | $56,400 | 2 | 91% |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coding It Forward Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Du Bois Orchestra Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 65% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Committee of 100 Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics S | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Church in Austin | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salient Publications | $15,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($158M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Morningside Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Morningside Foundation
- How much does The Morningside Foundation give?
- The Morningside Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $19,178,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Morningside Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Religion (7%), International (0%).
- Who are The Morningside Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Winthrop Park School Inc ($13M), University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc ($8.0M), Church in Irving ($5.1M).
- Does The Morningside Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Morningside Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Morningside Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Morningside Foundation based?
- The Morningside Foundation is based in MA.
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