· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $1,500 |
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CFACT | $800 |
| PALLADIUM THEATER | $500 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ACCURACY IN MEDIA | $300 |
| THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Morse Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
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
- 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
- FOFEDERATION OF ALLIANCES FRANCAISES USAone grant, 2017 · $100
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
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.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Macarthur Institute. 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 42 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 84 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 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 ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MACARTHUR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE 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: 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
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 Morse 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.
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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.