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The Morris Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$732k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$117,656
Organizations funded a year
4 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$8.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Morris Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalScience & TechCivil RightsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$460k8%
FY202415$541k20%
FY202316$329k31%
FY202210$509k50%
FY20217$429k29%
FY20205$143k40%
FY20194$293k25%
FY20184$86k25%
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.3MHealth$1.1MReligion$559kEducation$350kHuman Services$316kInternational$20kScience & Tech$20kYouth Development$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Morris Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSibs Place Inc: $560,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetThreefold Education Foundation and School: $400,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Valley Hospital Foundation Inc: $397,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Home Foundation of North Jersey: $260,800 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc: $78,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetItrek Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens-Young Womens Hebrew Assoc of Bergen County: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironment America Research and Policy Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTable to Table Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJcc Rockland Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 20.

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 Russell Berrie FoundationNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Russell Berrie Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to The Morris Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morris 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.

About The Morris Foundation

How much does The Morris Foundation give?
The Morris Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $732,449 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Morris Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Health (30%), Religion (15%).
Who are The Morris Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chabad Lubavitch of Northwest Bergen County Inc ($623k), Sibs Place Inc ($561k), Threefold Education Foundation and School ($400k).
Does The Morris Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morris 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 Morris Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Russell Berrie Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Morris Foundation based?
The Morris Foundation is based in DE.

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 26 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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