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The Morriss Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$434k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$112kEnvironment$96kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$80kEducation$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$62kFood & Nutrition$51kCivil Rights$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $317k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $30k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $19k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTH TEXAS REGION: $2k → 19%CROSSROADS MINISRY OF ESTES PARK: $15k → 11%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $3k → 22%CROSSROADS MINISRY OF ESTES PARK: $2k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $1k → 19%CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $2k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $1k → 19%STEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$459k · 30 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
20

Total granted

$459k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HA
    HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I
    3× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +37%
  • TR
    TEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +12%
  • EV
    ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +374%

Funded once

  • CU
    CENTRO UNIDO
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • WI
    WEGIVEASHARE Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • ML
    MCDOWELL LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
2
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
3
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
6
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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10
Npr Foundation

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…

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11
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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12
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
25/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRO UNIDO: $35,000 · OtherCENTRO UNIDOESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · OtherESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INCMCDOWELL LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCIL: $25,000 · OtherMCDOWELL LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCILNPR: $25,000 · OtherNPRTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA: $22,000 · OtherTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANAPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $22,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE SOUTH POVERTY LAW CENTER: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherTEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR THE DISABLED: $13,500 · OtherASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Other+39 more: $157,539 · Other+39 moreHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $51,500 · Human ServicesHOLY ANGELS RESIDE…YMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $39,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROCKIE…CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $20,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS MINISTR…STEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesWEGIVEASHARE Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWEGIVEASHARE …ACOEL FOUNDATION: $22,000 · PhilanthropyACOEL FOUNDAT…ESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyESTES PARK SA…TEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA: $15,500 · PhilanthropyTEXARKANA VOL…All for Lunch Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAll for Lunch…UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $11,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $7,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentPBS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN: $32,500 · EmploymentFARMER FOODSHARE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPORCH-Durham: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$404,539Human Services$125,500Philanthropy$87,500Environment$48,000Arts & Culture$43,500Employment$32,500Food & Nutrition$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $51,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWEGIVEASHARE Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACOEL FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA: $15,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetESTES PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION: $7,139 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMER FOODSHARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll for Lunch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORCH-Durham: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDomestic Violence Prevention Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1st Choice Pregnancy Resource Center Inc: $1,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH GEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEstes Park Medical Center Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAY EICHLER MEMORIAL FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALUD FAMILY HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Bobbie a Atkinson…Patterson Troike Foun…Ledwell Family Founda…Vasco McCoy Jr Founda…United Way of Greater…Wayne H Garrison Char…Kelley & Morgan Famil…Arkansas Community Fo…Community Foundation …Yates FoundationCabe Cook FoundationThe Community Foundat…
The Bobbie a Atkinson FoundationTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morriss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morriss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Morriss Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Morriss Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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