Tennessee · Private foundation
The Morris Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $121k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 48
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Morris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 54 | $121k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $100k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $159k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $199k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $196k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $168k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population Services International | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Foundation for Courtauld Instit | $48,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Kilgoris Project | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ugandan Water Project | $30,400 | 1 | 4% |
| Comma Catalyst | $29,375 | 2 | n/a |
| New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc | $28,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Oak Hill School | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Patricias Children Inc | $19,100 | 5 | 72% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $18,750 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Morris Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Morris Family Foundation
- How much does The Morris Family Foundation give?
- The Morris Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $120,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Morris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (37%), Education (16%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Morris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Population Services International ($275k), Fordham University ($58k), American Foundation for Courtauld Instit ($48k).
- Does The Morris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Morris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Morris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation.
- Where is The Morris Family Foundation based?
- The Morris Family Foundation is based in TN.
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