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The Morriss Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE ROCKIES | $35,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY | $30,000 |
| ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS & FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA | $20,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR THE DISABLED | $20,000 |
| THE SOUTH POVERTY LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| NPR | $20,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| UTAH CLEAN ENERGY | $17,000 |
| ESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS MINISRY OF ESTES PARK | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $12,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $11,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
- HAHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I3× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +37%
- TRTEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +12%
- EVESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +374%
Funded once
- CUCENTRO UNIDOone grant, 2024 · $35k
- MLMCDOWELL LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $25k
- WIWEGIVEASHARE Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Utah Geological Foundation. 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 38 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 78 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 HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN ↗
- Who funds ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEGIVEASHARE Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ACOEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESTES PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PORCH-Durham ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA 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: The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Ledwell Family Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Yates Foundation · Cabe Cook Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah
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 Morriss Family 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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