The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A 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.

$25M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 209
Grants FY2024: 141
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 192; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 13
Total assets, FY2024: $546M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	157	$21M	23%
FY2023	141	$17M	13%
FY2022	137	$17M	18%
FY2021	145	$17M	25%
FY2020	147	$13M	39%
FY2019	4	$1.0M	75%
FY2017	192	$8.5M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$37MReligion$12MPublic Benefit$12MInternational$9.6MCivil Rights$8.7MHealth$6.2MFood & Nutrition$6.1MEducation$4.7MOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Sarah and Daniel Rueven Foundation	$6,484,733	6	99%
Capital Area Food Bank Inc	$4,101,200	5	1%
Gather Inc	$4,037,500	6	58%
Israel Policy Forum Inc	$3,546,933	6	25%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$3,115,000	3	1%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$3,036,000	6	1%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$3,000,000	3	0%
Willow Redistribution Foundation	$2,903,334	3	63%
Georgetown Day School	$1,815,000	3	1%
The March Forth Foundation	$1,803,333	5	100%

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All grantees of The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Sarah and Daniel Rueven Foundation	$6,484,733	6	99%
Capital Area Food Bank Inc	$4,101,200	5	1%
Gather Inc	$4,037,500	6	58%
Israel Policy Forum Inc	$3,546,933	6	25%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$3,115,000	3	1%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$3,036,000	6	1%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$3,000,000	3	0%
Willow Redistribution Foundation	$2,903,334	3	63%
Georgetown Day School	$1,815,000	3	1%
The March Forth Foundation	$1,803,333	5	100%
Anti-Defamation League	$1,800,000	4	1%
Capital Impact Partners	$1,665,000	3	1%
Sierra Club Foundation	$1,552,500	6	0%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$1,425,000	6	0%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$1,380,000	4	0%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc	$1,297,250	6	1%
Our American Future Foundation	$1,100,000	2	1%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$1,064,000	6	0%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc	$1,050,000	6	1%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life	$1,019,000	6	1%
Priorities USA	$1,000,000	1	2%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc	$930,000	6	1%
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington	$925,000	6	7%
Kind Inc	$850,000	5	0%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation	$810,000	6	1%
Priorities USA Foundation	$750,000	2	6%
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia Inc	$625,000	6	4%
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America	$600,000	6	1%
When We All Vote	$600,000	2	2%
America Votes Education Fund	$500,000	1	6%
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington	$498,042	6	8%
Pic 2021 Inc	$497,000	1	1%
Red Wine & Blue Education Fund	$475,000	2	11%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc	$475,000	5	1%
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life at University of Md	$475,000	6	6%
Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation	$466,000	6	n/a
Washington Institute for Near East Policy	$437,500	6	1%
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc	$400,643	5	1%
Miriam's Kitchen	$399,000	6	1%
Sixth & I Synagogue Inc	$382,500	6	2%
Bread for the City Inc	$360,000	6	0%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc	$350,000	4	1%
Martha's Table Inc	$342,301	3	1%
Onetable Inc	$335,000	6	2%
Cityschools Collaborative	$332,615	4	1%
A Wider Bridge	$330,060	5	7%
Keshet Inc	$321,000	6	2%
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated	$320,000	5	2%
Media Matters for America	$300,000	3	1%
Jewish Social Service Agency	$300,000	6	0%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Sitar Arts Center	$295,000	6	2%
Casa Inc	$295,000	4	1%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc	$287,000	6	0%
Lift Inc	$270,000	6	1%
La Clinica del Pueblo Inc	$260,000	6	0%
Institute for Public Health Innovation	$259,000	3	1%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc	$255,000	3	1%
Fair Chance	$255,000	6	3%
The Israel Project	$250,000	1	5%
Mmac Community Support Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	6%
Democracy Matters Foundation	$250,000	1	4%
National Partnership for Women and Families	$240,000	6	1%
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum	$235,000	6	5%
Horton's Kids Inc	$230,000	6	1%
Jewish Funders Network	$215,000	6	0%
Friends of Amal-Tikva Inc	$205,000	3	24%
Target Als Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Fwdus Education Fund Inc	$200,000	3	1%
Faith in Action Network	$200,000	1	1%
Jewish Camp and Conference Service Inc	$200,000	2	1%
Manna Food Center Inc	$187,317	2	1%
Transforming CDC Inc	$175,000	1	n/a
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc	$170,000	6	1%
Moishe House	$170,000	5	0%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$170,000	5	1%
The Den Collective Inc	$162,000	6	11%
The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority Inc	$160,000	1	8%
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc	$150,000	6	1%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Kid Power Inc	$150,000	6	7%
DC Action for Children Today DC Act	$141,000	4	1%
Hazon Inc	$140,000	4	1%
Bard College	$135,000	1	0%
National Women's Law Center	$130,000	6	0%
American Friends of Yahad - in Unum Inc	$125,000	2	10%
Food & Friends Inc	$125,000	3	0%
Violence Policy Center	$120,000	6	2%
Food Research & Action Center	$120,000	6	0%
DC Scores	$120,000	6	1%
Honeymoon Israel Foundation Inc	$120,000	5	1%
Share Our Strength	$120,000	6	0%
Anacostia Watershed Society Inc	$115,000	6	1%
Congress Heights Community Training	$105,000	1	n/a
Arcadia Food Inc	$100,000	2	3%
The Phillips Collection	$100,000	6	0%
State Democracy Defenders Fund D/B/A Democracy Defenders Fund	$100,000	1	n/a
Sb Works	$100,000	1	n/a
Third Way Institute	$100,000	1	1%
The American Independent Foundation	$100,000	1	2%
Encounter Programs Inc	$100,000	1	4%
Alianza Center Inc	$100,000	1	16%
The Brookings Institution	$99,000	1	0%
Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc	$95,000	5	2%
Freshfarm Markets	$95,000	1	1%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers	$95,000	3	1%
The Student Conservation Association Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence	$90,000	2	2%
The Shakespeare Theatre	$90,000	5	0%
The Washington Ballet	$88,000	6	0%
Ayuda Inc	$87,800	3	0%
Young Playwrights Theater	$85,000	5	2%
Jewish Electorate Institute	$85,000	4	10%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc	$85,000	2	0%
Center for a New American Security Inc	$85,000	2	0%
DC Abortion Fund	$80,000	3	3%
Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd	$77,500	6	1%
So What Else Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Spread the Vote Inc	$75,000	1	7%
70 Faces Media Inc	$75,000	5	0%
Montgomery County Food Council Inc	$75,000	1	6%
American University Hillel Inc	$75,000	6	4%
The Upcounty Hub Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Sunflower Bakery Inc	$75,000	2	3%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State	$75,000	1	1%
Small Things Matter Inc	$74,725	1	23%
Dumbarton Arts and Education Inc	$70,000	3	2%
Wilderness Leadership & Learning Inc	$67,500	6	4%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc	$60,000	2	1%
Gesher School Inc	$60,000	1	1%
Generation Hope	$60,000	2	1%
Life Pieces to Masterpieces	$60,000	2	1%
Yosemite Foundation	$60,000	6	0%
Washington Hebrew Congregation	$60,000	4	n/a
The Studio Theatre Inc	$55,000	6	0%
George Mason University Hillel	$55,000	6	4%
Global Cold Chain Alliance Inc	$54,000	1	1%
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Resource Generation Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Some Inc	$50,000	3	0%
Hias Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Literacy Lab	$50,000	1	0%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Longhouse Reserve	$45,000	3	1%
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Food for Others Inc	$41,600	2	0%
The Hamptons International Film Festival Inc	$41,500	4	1%
Jubilee USA Network	$40,000	1	5%
Moving Forward Contemporary Asian American Dance Company	$40,000	3	2%
Kehillah Community Synagogue and School	$40,000	1	n/a
Thousand Currents	$40,000	1	0%
Real Food for Kids	$40,000	2	4%
Jubilee Housing Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Community Initiatives	$36,800	2	0%
Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc	$35,133	2	7%
Hillel at the George Washington University Inc	$35,000	2	2%
Trevor Project Inc	$30,000	6	0%
C&O Canal Trust Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas	$30,000	1	1%
Glaad Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Glsen Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Causa Justa Just Cause	$30,000	2	0%
Avalon Theatre Project Inc	$29,500	6	1%
We Care Inc	$26,600	1	19%
The Rockefeller University	$25,000	1	0%
Red Tent Fund	$25,000	1	1%
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi	$25,000	1	2%
American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Congregation Kneseth Israel Of	$25,000	1	n/a
Greater DC Diaper Bank	$25,000	1	1%
Israel on Campus Coalition Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Center for Creative Change	$20,000	4	0%
Food Rescue US Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc	$20,000	1	1%
One World Education	$20,000	1	2%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$20,000	4	0%
Latin American Youth Center	$20,000	1	0%
Rural Organizing Project	$20,000	1	n/a
Engaged Community Offshoots	$18,432	1	3%
Stern Grove Festival Association	$17,500	6	0%
Hiddush - Freedom of Religion for Israel	$17,500	1	4%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Spirit In Action Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Sharsheret Inc	$15,000	6	0%
DC Alliance of Youth Advocates	$15,000	1	4%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc	$15,000	1	0%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Youth Justice Coalition Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$15,000	1	1%
Jews United for Justice Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Round House Theatre Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Sowing Empowerment and Economic Development Inc	$13,300	1	1%
Movement Generation	$12,000	1	n/a
Lupus Research Alliance Inc	$10,000	2	0%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger	$10,000	1	0%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$10,000	1	0%
Storahtelling Lab Shul Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Chabad of Tribeca	$10,000	1	n/a
American Friends of the Israel Museum	$10,000	1	0%
American Supporters of Yedid Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Nechama - Jewish Response to Disaster	$10,000	1	1%
Kickstart International Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of Hudson River Park Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Central California Environmental Justice Network	$10,000	1	n/a
Silver Spring Cares Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Asian American LEAD	$10,000	1	1%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$10,000	1	n/a
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement	$10,000	1	0%
Wesleyan University	$10,000	1	0%
For Love of Children	$7,500	1	0%
Epacenter	$7,500	1	0%
True Ground Housing Partners Inc	$7,298	1	0%
National Gallery of Art	$6,500	6	0%
Food for All DC Inc	$6,300	1	n/a
Womens Art Center of the Hamptons Inc	$5,000	2	1%
San Francisco Women Against Rape	$5,000	1	0%
See Spot Rescued Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Wilderness Torah	$5,000	1	1%
States United to Prevent Gun Violenc Co Gpec-Ichv	$5,000	1	n/a
Bimbam	$5,000	1	1%
Supplies for Success Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Museum of American Finance	$5,000	1	0%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Reboot Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Essie Justice Group	$5,000	1	0%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Taller Salud Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel Inc	$5,000	1	2%
America Israel Democracy Coalition	$5,000	1	0%
National Kidney Foundation Inc	$4,100	1	0%
Beloved Builders Inc	$4,000	1	2%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc	$4,000	1	1%
Southern Jewish Resource Network Inc	$4,000	1	2%
Bad Rap	$3,000	1	n/a
Bay Street Theatre Festival Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Urban Adamah	$2,000	1	0%
American Jewish International Relations	$2,000	1	2%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$1,800	1	0%
New Jewish Narrative Inc	$1,800	1	0%
Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc	$1,800	1	1%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$1,800	1	0%
University of San Francisco	$1,800	1	0%
The American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba	$1,600	1	1%
Hayground School Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Conservation Nation	$500	1	0%
Young Judaea Global Inc	$400	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.

The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC65.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · England Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc

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.

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About The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation

How much does The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation give?: The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation reported 209 grants totaling $24,544,887 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 192 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Religion (10%), Public Benefit (10%).
Who are The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Sarah and Daniel Rueven Foundation ($6.5M), Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($4.1M), Gather Inc ($4.0M).
Does The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar 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 Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc.
Where is The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation based?: The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation is based in MD.