How much did THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION reported 228 grants totaling $5,871,713 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION based?

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION is based in CA.

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION enables the people of morrison & foerster to focus their charitable giving on nonprofit organizations serving people in the communities in which the firm's personnel live and work.

$5.9M

Granted FY2024

228

Grants

Communities

$335k

Largest

01What you fund

0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Crime & Legal$3.7MEducation$1.9MInternational$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$898kHealth$616kCivil Rights$562kFood & Nutrition$332kPhilanthropy$285kOther$4.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid responseelectioncoronavirusholidaydriveaustralianafrican

2021

performance spacewe'redenverscientific medicalmedical researchpartiesthrive

2022

abortionukraineautismappealsindependentlgbtq youthnssa offers

2023

syriaunderstandinglawyers committeeethnicombmauidesigned

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 228 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k55 grants · $395k
$10k–50k158 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+2 grants · $591k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS$335,000
MYRIAD USA INC$256,418
OAKLAND REACH$150,000
DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING INC$112,500
DREAM PROJECT INC$100,600
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$100,000
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC INC$85,000
BAY AREA LEGAL AID$75,000
LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA$75,000
SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURES$75,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES$66,668
NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA$50,000
PROJECT GLIMMER$50,000
THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$50,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $851k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 207 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

207 repeat relationships — 167 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

207

108

Total granted

$13M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+69%

Still filing today

94%

91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther

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

MYRIAD USA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $437k · revenue +856%
BA
BAY AREA LEGAL AID
5× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +96%
LC
LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +140%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +206%
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +73%
IC
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%

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.

The Bar Association of San Francisco

Basf is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the san francisco bay area which works to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all forms, including (but not…

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Legal Services Corporation

To promote equal access to justice in our nation and to provide high quality civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Legal Services

Provides access to quality civil legal services to as many people in colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

Council for Court Excellence

Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.

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Legal Aid Association of California

LAAC is the statewide membership of civil legal nonprofits. We serve our community and their clients by advocating for more legal aid funding, by training legal aid staff, and by coordinating and connecting advocates throughout the state.

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Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

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Family Violence Law Center

Family Violence Law Center ("FVLC") helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention…

Crime & Legal

The District of Columbia Bar Foundation

To fund, support, and improve legal representation of the disadvantaged in the district of columbia.

Crime & Legal

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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American Civil Liberties Union of

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. it does so through a range of legislative and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice and the most unlike its peers is Room to Read. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/374

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,191

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.

05the grantee network

353 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

349/353

Grantees still filing

284/353

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$3,741,008Other$6,119,830Education$1,854,250International$1,148,555Human Services$1,069,121Arts & Culture$897,800Health$616,444

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.

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.

Equal Justice WorksDC79× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · California Access to Justice Commission · Venable Foundation Inc · Perkins Coie Foundation · California Changelawyers · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Skadden 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 organisation THE MORRISON & FOERSTER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853336543 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

353 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation?

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THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

353 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation?

More from the funding graph