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The Morris 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$2.6MHuman Services$960kEducation$850kPublic Safety & Disaster$800kInternational$400kYouth Development$270kAnimals$252kCrime & Legal$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $726k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$300,000
MAYO CLINIC$125,926
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
TEAM RUBICON$100,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
OHHSCHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$50,000
LIFESKILLS RANCH PROGRAM$50,000
WWHS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ANGEL FLIGHT WEST$50,000
PREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$50,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE$50,000
HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER MODESTO$25,000
DEV MISSION$25,000
PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDDY HOUSE: $20k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $50k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 14 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$4.4M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-34%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +38%
  • Southern Methodist University
    2× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +3%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOTE FORWARD
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • MI
    Music In Schools Today
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Monterey Bay Dart

Drone, Aviation, and Robotics Technology (DART) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to support quality job growth and community vitality. DART's mission is to…

Science & Tech
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

3
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.

Public Benefit
4
Goodwill Industries of New Mexico

Goodwills mission is to provide skills training, job development and social services for new mexicans. goodwill's vision is that new mexicans will have the opportunity to improve their lives by utilizing goodwill's services and…

Employment
5
Lifemoves

Lifemoves provides interim housing and supportive services for homeless families and individuals to rapidly return to stable housing and achieve long-term self-sufficiency.

6
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
7
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
8
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
9
Hire Heroes Usa Inc

Hire heroes usa empowers u.s. military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, hire heroes usa's services are provided at no cost to the client.

Education
10
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Npower Inc

Npower is a national nonprofit that unlocks economic mobility by preparing young adults and military-connected individuals - especially those facing barriers to opportunity - for high-demand careers in the technology sector through…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Rubicon Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifeskills Ranch Program 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $2,245,936 · HealthMAYO CLINICANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $325,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INCLIFESKILLS RANCH PROGRAM INC — $300,000 · HealthLIFESKILLS RANCH PROGRAM INCSALVATION ARMY — $600,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYOHHSCHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · OtherOHHSCHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONVOTE FORWARD — $200,000 · OtherVOTE FORWARDIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWWHS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherWWHS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER MODESTO GREATER MODESTO INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY N — $200,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER …DEV MISSION — $125,000 · OtherDEV MISSION+2 more — $35,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $800,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA VOLU…+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Methodist University — $600,000 · EducationSouthern Me…HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $125,000 · EducationHIDDEN GENI…TEAM RUBICON INC — $400,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (PVCA) — $251,500 · AnimalsIMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE — $250,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$2,870,936Other$1,610,000Human Services$880,000Education$725,000Public Safety & Disaster$400,000Animals$251,500Crime & Legal$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC — $2,245,936 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $325,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLIFESKILLS RANCH PROGRAM INC — $300,000 over 6y, 96% of budgetPREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (PVCA) — $251,500 over 5y, 57% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE — $250,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVOTE FORWARD — $200,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER MODESTO GREATER MODESTO INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY N — $200,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDEV MISSION — $125,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMusic In Schools Today — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC
  • Who funds LIFESKILLS RANCH PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds PREVENT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (PVCA)
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE
  • Who funds VOTE FORWARD
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER MODESTO GREATER MODESTO INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY N
  • Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT
  • Who funds DEV MISSION
  • Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC
  • Who funds Music In Schools Today
  • Who funds EDDY HOUSE

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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