Texas · Private foundation
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.
- $9.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $270M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% 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; $1.5M 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 | 68 | $8.8M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 88 | $16M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $9.3M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $8.8M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $8.4M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $8.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County | $2,500,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Rev Tarrant County | $1,887,250 | 4 | 89% |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | $1,681,079 | 5 | 2% |
| Camp Fire First Texas | $1,375,800 | 5 | 6% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $1,320,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Child Care Associates | $1,222,660 | 5 | 0% |
| Jps Foundation | $1,100,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $1,020,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mhmr Visions Dba Mhmr Foundation | $1,015,000 | 4 | 81% |
| North Texas Area Community Health Center | $1,010,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 109 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Morris Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Morris Foundation
- How much does The Morris Foundation give?
- The Morris Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $9,006,922 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Morris Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (14%), Human Services (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Morris Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County ($2.5M), Rev Tarrant County ($1.9M), Texas Health Resources Foundation ($1.7M).
- Does The Morris Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% 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 Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Sid W Richardson Foundation, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax.
- Where is The Morris Foundation based?
- The Morris Foundation is based in TX.
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