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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $750
- $10k–50k21 grants · $651k
- $50k–250k105 grants · $12M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $950,000 |
| REV TARRANT COUNTY | $800,000 |
| FORT WORTH AFFORDABILITY INC DBA FORT WORTH HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $500,000 |
| MHMR FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| JPS FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY | $280,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER | $250,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN FORT WORTH | $240,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY DFW METROPLEX COMMAND | $240,000 |
| CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS | $225,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $225,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY | $220,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $210,406 |
| AIDS OUTREACH CENTER | $201,026 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $200,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- THTexas Health Resources Foundation4× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +37%
- CFCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS4× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
- CCCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES4× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +88%
Funded once
- VVariousone grant, 2017 · $8.8M
- NTNORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION READ FORT WORTHone grant, 2021 · $375k
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROITone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -46%
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 mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Area Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Abide Womens Health Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 143 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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds REV TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds JPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds EXPANCO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds AIDS OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Recovery Resource Council ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · United Way of Tarrant County · The Rees-Jones Foundation · R4 Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund
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.
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.
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