· Private foundation
The Morse Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL TAX LIMITATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $1,500 |
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $1,500 |
| FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| CFACT | $800 |
| PALLADIUM THEATER | $500 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $300 |
| THE ATLAS SOCIETY | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of The Morse Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 9%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OIOREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
- AOANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +53%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $200
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100
- FOFEDERATION OF ALLIANCES FRANCAISES USAone grant, 2017 · $100
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.
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.
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To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.
The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS OSBORNE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAX LIMITATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Dunn Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bailey Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Morse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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