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The Morris Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $250k+1 grant · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY CLUB OF GIG HARBOR | $850,000 |
| GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY | $24,300 |
| HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM | $13,850 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARK FUND | $3,000 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT | $275 |
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 (FY17–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +159% since the first grant, against -52% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- RCROTARY CLUB OF GIG HARBOR2× · 2018–2019 · $851k · revenue +34%
- GPGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +489%
- GHGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- EWED WORTHEN EYE CLINICone grant, 2017 · $4k
- KWKELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARESone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -52%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-TACOMAone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Engaging people in on-the-ground efforts to help salmon and our communities thrive.
: a catalyst for the greater good. we partner with donors and others to invest in our region's nonprofit organizations to foster a more vibrant kitsap peninsula for the benefit of all.
The gig harbor waterfront alliance promotes economic vitality by maintaining a historic waterfront community that attracts diverse businesses and people through collaboration, outreach and activities.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
Pchs exemplifies a culture of community service.
Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.
Strengthening the communities of whidbey island for both present and future generations.
Serve the small business community and local development.
Provide emergency aid to the needy
Key Peninsula News mission to reflect and connect the Key Peninsula Community as it evolves and grows.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Peninsula Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 ROTARY CLUB OF GIG HARBOR ↗
- Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HAWKS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds FISH ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES ↗
- Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
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: Anne Hampton Foundation · Glein Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
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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