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The Morris Family Foundation at a glance

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The Morris Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$350kEducation$148kHealth$126kArts & Culture$97kEnvironment$44kHuman Services$43kPhilanthropy$33kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMA CATALYST$17,250
OAK HILL SCHOOL$15,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$10,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART$10,000
ESTONIAN AMERICAN FUND$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
THE SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$2,000
VERSAILLES FOUNDATION$2,000
TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN$1,700
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%PATRICIA'S CHILDREN INC: $5k → 16%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%PATRICIA'S CHILDREN INC: $5k → 16%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%PATRICIA'S CHILDREN INC: $4k → 16%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%PATRICIA'S CHILDREN INC: $4k → 16%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%PATRICIA'S CHILDREN INC: $2k → 16%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $1k → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $500 → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $500 → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $500 → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $500 → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $400 → 9%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
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 61 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
11

Total granted

$822k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+32%

Still filing today

64%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • FU
    Fordham University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +31%
  • NC
    NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +139%
  • OH
    OAK HILL SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KILGORIS PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +45%
  • UW
    Ugandan Water Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +140%
  • WM
    WITH MY OWN 2 HANDS
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
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
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
2
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
3
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
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

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

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6
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Governors Island Corporation

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…

Animals
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $275,000 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONALMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - SOCIETY OF MSK: $58,450 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - SOCIETY OF MSKAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTIT: $48,000 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTITCOMMA CATALYST: $29,375 · OtherNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $28,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,500 · OtherOAK HILL SCHOOL: $25,000 · Other+45 more: $184,526 · Other+45 moreFordham University: $58,000 · EducationFordham Unive…THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $18,750 · EducationTHE HARPETH H…UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $17,125 · EducationUNIVERSITY SC…Trustees of Tufts College: $6,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc: $5,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $4,040 · Education+5 more: $5,600 · EducationTHE KILGORIS PROJECT: $43,000 · InternationalUgandan Water Project: $30,400 · International+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC: $12,140 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $2,750 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,350 · Arts & CultureSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC: $1,750 · Arts & CultureNew Canaan Preservation Alliance: $1,400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $720 · Arts & CulturePATRICIAS CHILDREN INC: $19,100 · Human ServicesSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $3,400 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $13,725 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $2,275 · PhilanthropyGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $6,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $2,350 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Other$673,951Education$114,515International$74,900Arts & Culture$33,610Human Services$25,500Philanthropy$24,000Health$8,450

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 budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $58,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR COURTAULD INSTIT: $48,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUgandan Water Project: $30,400 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $28,100 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATRICIAS CHILDREN INC: $19,100 over 5y, 72% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $18,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $17,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $13,725 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC: $12,140 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVOICES FOR A SAFER TENNESSEE: $12,125 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Versailles Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROOT NS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $4,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC: $3,721 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $3,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $2,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,350 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $2,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRevived Soldiers Ukraine: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Canaan Preservation Alliance: $1,400 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARRAKECH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN GARDEN CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEWCOMERS CLUB OF NEW CANAAN INC: $510 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ROOT NS INC ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Partners 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 ↗

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.

Hobbs Family Charitab…Fairfield County's Co…Jim and Dede Bartlett…The Seelert Foundatio…New Canaan Community …MLE Foundation IncCorbet Family Foundat…Jeniam FoundationAnsonia Foundation Ad…The a James Bach and …Half Moon FoundationThe Debard Johnson Fo…
Hobbs Family Charitable TrustCT26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Morris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 85 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.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$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