Skip to content
The Morningside Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$181MReligion$14MInternational$500kArts & Culture$327kScience & Tech$225kHealth$200kCommunity Improvement$150kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
  • $250k+5 grants · $19M
$420,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION$8,000,000
MIT$6,000,000
NEWTON HIGH PEAK INC$2,965,162
WPS INSTITUTE INC$1,675,838
THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE$420,000
THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIMLME$60,500
THE COLRAIN MEETING FOUNDATION$50,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$30,000
DU BOIS ORCHESTRA$20,000
MORNINGSIDE MUSIC BRIDGE$7,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIT: $20.1M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $35.0M → 12%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $200k → 16%DAVOS ALZHEIMER'S COLLABORATEIVE: $100k → 22%THE CHURCH IN SANTA ANA: $80k → 10%FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $500k → 17%THE CHURCH IN IRVING: $3.1M → 14%THE CHURCH IN ATLANTA: $2.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $333k → 14%MIT: $19.9M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $35.0M → 12%THE CHURCH IN SANTA ANA: $77k → 10%THE CHURCH IN IRVING: $1.0M → 14%EMORY COLLEGE: $2.6M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $333k → 14%MIT: $6.0M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $35.0M → 12%THE CHURCH IN SANTA ANA: $62k → 10%THE CHURCH IN IRVING: $1.0M → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY DONOR ACCOUNT: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $333k → 14%THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE: $600k → 8%DEFENSE AND CONFIRMATION PROJECT: $100k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY DONOR ACCOUNT: $100k → 14%DESIGN MUSEUM OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE: $420k → 8%MGH CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $2.6M → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY DONOR ACCOUNT: $100k → 14%THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE: $245k → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $720k → 10%THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE: $200k → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $300k → 10%THE CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE: $100k → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $120k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION: $8.0M → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIMLME: $66k → 10%WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC: $3.9M → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIMLME: $66k → 10%WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC: $3.2M → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIMLME: $66k → 10%WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC: $3.0M → 8%THE CHURCH IN ANAHEIMLME: $61k → 10%NEWTON HIGH PEAK INC: $3.0M → 8%WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC: $2.6M → 8%THE CHURCH IN IRVINE GTCA: $400k → 10%WPS INSTITUTE INC: $1.7M → 8%THE CHURCH IN NEWTON: $120k → 8%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
MA
PA
CA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177M · 16 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$177M
$7.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

25%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechInternationalEmploymentReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $105M
  • M
    MIT
    3× · 2022–2025 · $46M
  • WP
    WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $13M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • EC
    EMORY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $2.6M
  • TC
    THE CHURCH IN ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.5M
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +81%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
American Institute of Physics Inc

Aip advances the physical sciences as a federation and an institute. as a federation, aip works to advance the success of its member societies and affiliates so that they can leverage their diverse expertise and contributions in advancing…

Science & Tech
6
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Morningside Music Bridge 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

16 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. 16 of the 40 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $105,000,765 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSMIT: $46,045,736 · OtherMITWINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC: $12,708,500 · OtherWINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC+22 more: $20,833,162 · Other+22 moreUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000,000 · EducationWPS INSTITUTE INC: $1,675,838 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $1,000,000 · Education+1 more: $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $500,000 · InternationalDesign Museum of Chicago: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMORNINGSIDE MUSIC BRIDGE INC: $56,400 · Arts & CultureDU BOIS ORCHESTRA INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSalient Publications: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDefense and Confirmation Project Inc: $100,000 · ReligionAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $50,000 · Science & TechENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS S: $25,000 · Science & TechCODING IT FORWARD INC: $50,000 · Employment
Other$184,588,163Education$10,705,838International$500,000Arts & Culture$352,400Religion$100,000Science & Tech$75,000Employment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDesign Museum of Chicago: $200,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetDefense and Confirmation Project Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMORNINGSIDE MUSIC BRIDGE INC: $56,400 over 2y, 91% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODING IT FORWARD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDU BOIS ORCHESTRA INC: $46,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS S: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSalient Publications: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 WINTHROP PARK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WPS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
  • Who funds Design Museum of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Defense and Confirmation Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE MUSIC BRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds CODING IT FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds DU BOIS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS S ↗
  • Who funds Salient Publications ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Morningside Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morningside Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Du Bois Orchestra Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Morningside’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home