· Private foundation
The Morsman 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | $6,000 |
| The Brinton Museum | $2,000 |
| Freedom Service Dogs | $2,000 |
| Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives | $2,000 |
| Chatfield Music Lending Library | $1,800 |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $1,200 |
| One Village Partners | $1,200 |
| Youth Advantage | $1,200 |
| The Trevor Project | $1,200 |
| Climate Generation | $1,200 |
| Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota | $1,200 |
| People Serving People | $1,200 |
| Brooke USA | $1,200 |
| Loaves and Fishes | $1,200 |
| Integrated Family Community Services | $1,180 |
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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TNTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +40%
- FSFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +329%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
- WSWest Side Children's Hospital Associationone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LSLake Street Council Visit Lake Streetone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc. 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 28 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRARON CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Morsman 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.