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The Morningstar 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Philanthropy$4.9MEducation$282kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kReligion$105kEnvironment$75kHousing & Shelter$71kAnimals$66kHuman Services$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,040
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT$13,040
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 13%WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $3k → 11%PROJECT SANTA: $10k → 12%SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 8%FOUNDATION TO FIGHT H-ABC: $10k → 8%PROJECT SANTA: $5k → 12%FOUNDATION TO FIGHT H-ABC: $3k → 8%PROJECT SANTA: $5k → 12%THE REAL WAY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 35 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
43

Total granted

$3.4M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+39%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +130%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • GP
    GODS PIT CREW INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $48k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UP
    UNC PEMBROKE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WH
    WEST HAMPTON BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals
2
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
3
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
5
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
6
The Washington County Humane Society Inc

Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.

Animals
7
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
8
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
9
Portsmouth Humane Society Inc

Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.

Animals
10
Dogs Playing for Life Inc

Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.

Animals
11
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
12
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montebello Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Social ServicesYouth Development CentersCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr14%82%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,301

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.

04the grantee network

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT — $2,733,070 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT+54 more — $734,500 · Other+54 moreBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $2,177,293 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD+2 more — $26,000 · PhilanthropyGODS PIT CREW INC — $48,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMontebello Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $18,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $15,000 · EnvironmentBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League — $3,500 · EnvironmentCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT SANTA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFoundation to Fight H-ABC — $13,000 · Human ServicesSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesALPHA PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC — $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE REAL WAY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPEACE RIVER REFUGE & RANCH INC — $25,500 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsBEAUTY'S HAVEN FARM & EQUINE RESCUE — $5,000 · AnimalsNORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $3,000 · AnimalsWags and Walks — $2,500 · Animals+1 more — $1,500 · Animals
Other$3,467,570Philanthropy$2,203,293Public Safety & Disaster$76,000Environment$68,500Public Benefit$68,000Human Services$53,000Animals$52,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $2,177,293 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC — $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORKIDS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORPHAN HELPERSINC — $32,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPEACE RIVER REFUGE & RANCH INC — $25,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetRODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLot 2540 Incorporated — $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $19,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMontebello Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $18,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation to Fight H-ABC — $13,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetThe Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budget1ST STAGE INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGrace Resource Center Inc — $9,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF HOMOSASSA SPRINGS WI — $6,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEAUTY'S HAVEN FARM & EQUINE RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FINE ARTS CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAFETY SHELTER OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN HIKING SOCIETY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDC STRINGS WORKSHOP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC
  • Who funds FORKIDS INC
  • Who funds ORPHAN HELPERSINC
  • Who funds PEACE RIVER REFUGE & RANCH INC
  • Who funds RODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC
  • Who funds PROJECT SANTA INC
  • Who funds Lot 2540 Incorporated
  • Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
  • Who funds Montebello Volunteer Fire Department Inc
  • Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES
  • Who funds Foundation to Fight H-ABC
  • Who funds The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club
  • Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC
  • Who funds Dyers Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc
  • Who funds 1ST STAGE INC
  • Who funds Grace Resource Center Inc
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS 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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · Shell USA Company 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 Morningstar 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Xerces Society Inc22% of income from government
  • American Hiking Society14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Morningstar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morningstar 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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