· Private foundation
The Morris Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMA CATALYST | $17,250 |
| OAK HILL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ESTONIAN AMERICAN FUND | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART | $10,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF MSK | $6,000 |
| VOICES FOR A SAFER TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST INC | $3,100 |
| ST GEORGE'S ANNUAL FUND | $2,000 |
| VERSAILLES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those 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.
61 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FUFordham University6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +31%
- NCNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +139%
- OHOAK HILL SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TKTHE KILGORIS PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +45%
- UWUgandan Water Projectgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +140%
- WMWITH MY OWN 2 HANDSone grant, 2020 · $12k
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 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…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Farms Foundation 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 85 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 POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTIT ↗
- Who funds THE KILGORIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Ugandan Water Project ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATRICIAS CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR A SAFER TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds The Versailles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation · Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc
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 Morris Family 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.
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Marrakech Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College — 6% of income from government
- Town Players of New Canaan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% 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.