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The Morsman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum$6,000
The Brinton Museum$2,000
Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives$2,000
Freedom Service Dogs$2,000
Chatfield Music Lending Library$1,800
Brooke USA$1,200
People Serving People$1,200
Loaves and Fishes$1,200
One Village Partners$1,200
Minnesota Land Trust$1,200
Youth Advantage$1,200
The Trevor Project$1,200
Climate Generation$1,200
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota$1,200
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley$1,180
02The need
03

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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The TraRon Center: $2k → 14%The TraRon Center: $1k → 14%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Integrated Family Community Services: $2k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Integrated Family Community Services: $2k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Integrated Family Community Services: $2k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $2k → 8%Integrated Family Community Services: $1k → 8%Integrated Family Community Services: $1k → 8%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

MN
WI
WY
CA
CO
NE
KY
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$202k · 27 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
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Total granted

$202k
$4k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TN
    THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +40%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +329%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • LS
    Lake Street Council Visit Lake Street
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • WS
    West Side Children's Hospital Association
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
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
2
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
3
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
7
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Mountain Area Land Trust

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.

Environment
10
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
11
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: $34,400 · OtherMinnesota Landscape ArboretumHabitat for Humanity of Denver Metro: $7,970 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Denver MetroLoaves and Fishes: $7,050 · OtherLoaves and FishesChatfield Music Lending Library: $6,900 · OtherChatfield Music Lending LibraryPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $7,300 · OtherPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INCMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $7,300 · OtherMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTYOUTH ADVANTAGE INC: $7,300 · OtherYOUTH ADVANTAGE INCCLIMATE GENERATION: $7,300 · OtherCLIMATE GENERATION+9 more: $10,640 · Other+9 moreDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $7,970 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS L…WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDERNESS AS…BROOKE USA INC: $7,300 · AnimalsBROOKE USA INCWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $7,050 · AnimalsWILDLIFE REHABILITATI…RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $6,500 · AnimalsRAPTOR EDUCATION GROU…HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $2,320 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $11,850 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVI…Integrated Family Community Services: $8,290 · Human ServicesIntegrated Fa…THE TRARON CENTER: $2,700 · Human ServicesTHE TRARON CE…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $2,320 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KI…THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $12,500 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,180 · Arts & CultureCONSERVATION COLORADO: $10,290 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,200 · Civil RightsOPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVES: $12,070 · Crime & LegalONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $7,400 · InternationalALIGHT: $2,300 · International
Other$96,160Animals$38,640Human Services$25,160Arts & Culture$13,680Civil Rights$12,490Crime & Legal$12,070International$9,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $11,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $10,290 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $8,290 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $7,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $7,400 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $7,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKE USA INC: $7,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $7,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ADVANTAGE INC: $7,300 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $7,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $7,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRARON CENTER: $2,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $2,320 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $2,320 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALIGHT: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $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.

  • 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 PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRARON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER 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 ↗

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 FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Mortenson Family Foun…The Denver FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Colorado Gives Founda…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 34 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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