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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 FY2024still arriving
228
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Crime & Legal$6.4MEducation$2.5MCivil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$854kInternational$750kFood & Nutrition$724kHealth$622kHuman Services$596kOther$0
02FY2024 · 228 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 228 grants below total $4,573,927 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,871,713 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,297,786 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

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
19
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURES$75,000
BAY AREA LEGAL AID$75,000
LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA$75,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES$66,668
THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO$50,000
PROJECT GLIMMER$50,000
NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $851k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%START SMALL THINK BIG INC: $20k → 17%OPERATION RAMP IT UP FOR VETERANS: $10k → 12%ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $40k → 4%LEARNING ALLY INC: $10k → 11%START SMALL THINK BIG INC: $20k → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION TO CURE AIDS INC: $13k → 20%LEARNING ALLY INC: $10k → 11%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $22k → 10%LEARNING ALLY INC: $10k → 11%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $12k → 10%LEARNING ALLY INC: $10k → 11%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $12k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $12k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 10%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $20k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $10k → 14%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $50k → 14%NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $15k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $18k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $18k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $15k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $15k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $13k → 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $10k → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $10k → 10%SONIA AND CELINA SOTOMAYOR JUDICIAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $18k → 17%SONIA AND CELINA SOTOMAYOR JUDICIAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $10k → 17%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 201 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

201 repeat relationships — 162 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
98

Total granted

$13M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-4%

Still filing today

94%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & 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

  • BA
    BAY AREA LEGAL AID
    5× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +46%
  • LC
    Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
    5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +64%
  • TJ
    THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $243k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -51%
  • ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -66%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%

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.

1
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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2
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

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4
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
5
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
6
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
7
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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8
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
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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11
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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12
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Changelawyers and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way AffiliatesPregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Military Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Social ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringAddiction Recovery ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

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 — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/373
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,192

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.

04the grantee network

353 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. 353 of the 373 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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
349/353
Grantees still filing
211/353
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $1,482,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSLegal Aid at Work — $214,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid at WorkAdvocates for Children of New York — $190,000 · Crime & LegalAdvocates for Children of Ne…SILICON VALLEY CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES — $160,000 · Crime & Legal+28 more — $1,484,692 · Crime & Legal+28 moreBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $425,000 · OtherBAY AREA LEGAL AIDLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area — $340,350 · OtherLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the Sa…New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $195,000 · OtherLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK — $185,000 · OtherTHE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $242,500 · Other+76 more — $4,046,060 · Other+76 moreThe Oakland REACH — $150,000 · EducationThe Oakland R…COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION — $130,050 · EducationCOMMUNITY ALL…ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION — $106,200 · EducationASIAN UNIVERS…DREAM PROJECT INC — $100,600 · EducationDREAM PROJECT…The John Paul Stevens Foundation — $90,000 · EducationThe John Paul…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $78,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $67,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $66,200 · EducationDistrict of Columbia School of Law Foundation — $65,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $62,500 · EducationTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART — $57,500 · Education+19 more — $565,550 · Education+19 moreMYRIAD USA INC — $437,318 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $89,600 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $67,810 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA — $63,109 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $60,500 · InternationalJUSTICE WITHOUT BORDERS — $55,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $54,245 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INC — $34,300 · International+7 more — $166,250 · InternationalSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $80,100 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $77,500 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $68,000 · Human ServicesVOLARE — $65,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $60,720 · Human ServicesPROJECT GLIMMER — $60,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc — $47,500 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesSTART SMALL THINK BIG INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $35,200 · Human Services+5 more — $117,500 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $160,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $125,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $95,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $90,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $47,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $45,600 · Arts & CultureSHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER — $42,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC — $28,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $37,600 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $117,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $95,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $72,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $46,402 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $37,700 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $30,275 · Civil RightsSouthern Center for Human Rights — $30,000 · Civil RightsLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER — $24,774 · Civil RightsCAMP REHOBOTH INC — $20,000 · Civil Rights
Crime & Legal$3,530,692Other$5,433,910Education$1,609,100International$1,028,132Human Services$911,520Arts & Culture$816,200Civil Rights$473,651

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $1,482,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $437,318 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $425,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area — $340,350 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $242,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLegal Aid at Work — $214,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $195,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York — $190,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK — $185,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES — $160,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $150,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $141,454 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION — $130,050 over 5y, 14% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $117,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $112,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION — $106,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $101,691 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $101,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDREAM PROJECT INC — $100,600 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $100,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $100,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley — $100,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER — $95,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $92,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County — $90,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS — $90,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe John Paul Stevens Foundation — $90,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $89,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC — $87,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $87,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC — $87,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $86,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $82,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $80,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $79,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $78,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $75,000 over 5y, 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.

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.

The Wilson Sonsini Go…The Sidley Austin Fou…Equal Justice WorksLittler Mendelson Fou…Venable Foundation IncCalifornia Access to …Perkins Coie Foundati…California Changelawy…Munger Tolles & Olson…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way Miami IncThe Gibson Dunn & Cru…
The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati FoundationCA85.5× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Venable Foundation Inc · California Access to Justice Commission · Perkins Coie Foundation · California Changelawyers · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Camp Rehoboth Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
  • Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 373 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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