How much does The Morsman Family Foundation give?

The Morsman Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $35,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Morsman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Animals (15%), Human Services (12%).

Who are The Morsman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch ($13k), Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives ($12k), Freedom Service Dogs Inc ($12k).

Does The Morsman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Morsman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Morsman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is The Morsman Family Foundation based?

The Morsman Family Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Grants FY2025: 23
Organizations funded FY2024: 26%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,200
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 23; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $473k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Morsman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$35k	12%
FY2024	23	$34k	26%
FY2023	21	$36k	0%
FY2022	21	$39k	10%
FY2021	21	$33k	10%
FY2020	21	$30k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$69kAnimals$31kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$21kYouth Development$19kHousing & Shelter$16kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch	$12,500	6	0%
Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives	$12,070	6	n/a
Freedom Service Dogs Inc	$11,850	6	0%
Conservation Colorado	$10,290	6	0%
Integrated Family Community Services	$8,290	5	0%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$7,970	4	0%
Wyoming Wilderness Association	$7,500	6	1%
Onevillage Partners	$7,400	6	0%
People Serving People Inc	$7,300	6	0%
Brooke USA Inc	$7,300	6	0%

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All grantees of The Morsman Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch	$12,500	6	0%
Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives	$12,070	6	n/a
Freedom Service Dogs Inc	$11,850	6	0%
Conservation Colorado	$10,290	6	0%
Integrated Family Community Services	$8,290	5	0%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$7,970	4	0%
Wyoming Wilderness Association	$7,500	6	1%
Onevillage Partners	$7,400	6	0%
People Serving People Inc	$7,300	6	0%
Brooke USA Inc	$7,300	6	0%
Minnesota Land Trust	$7,300	6	0%
Youth Advantage Inc	$7,300	6	1%
Climate Generation	$7,300	6	0%
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota	$7,050	6	0%
Raptor Education Group Inc	$6,500	6	0%
The Traron Center	$2,700	2	0%
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc	$2,320	2	0%
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc	$2,320	2	0%
Alight	$2,300	2	0%
Trevor Project Inc	$2,200	2	0%
Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy	$2,100	2	n/a
Rocky Mountain Microfinance	$2,000	2	0%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$1,900	2	0%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc	$1,180	1	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$500	1	0%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Morsman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Morsman Family Foundation

How much does The Morsman Family Foundation give?: The Morsman Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $35,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Morsman Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Animals (15%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Morsman Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch ($13k), Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives ($12k), Freedom Service Dogs Inc ($12k).
Does The Morsman Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morsman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Morsman Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is The Morsman Family Foundation based?: The Morsman Family Foundation is based in MN.