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The Morton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$808k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
58
Grants FY2024
62
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
60 to 62
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations The Morton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving57$803k0%
FY202362$820k3%
FY202260$806k5%
FY202161$794k2%
FY202061$780kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.0MEducation$702kYouth Development$563kFood & Nutrition$426kHuman Services$274kAnimals$219kCommunity Improvement$185kInternational$133kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 53 grantees
All grantees of The Morton Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ncga Foundation$375,00052%
The Bridge School$310,00055%
George Mark Childrens Fund$200,00051%
Community Vision Capital & Consulting$150,00050%
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$150,00050%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$150,00050%
Community Connections Free Clinic Inc$125,000513%
Stanford Health Care$125,00050%
Groceries for Seniors$105,00052%
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund$100,00050%
Rubicon Programs Inc$100,00050%
Happy Trails Riding Academy$75,00053%
Root Division$70,00052%
East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring$65,00051%
Trips for Kids National$60,000550%
The Basic Fund$60,00050%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$60,00050%
The Charles Armstrong School$54,00050%
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation$50,00050%
Palcare Inc$50,00050%
Curiodyssey$50,00050%
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County$50,00050%
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc$50,00052%
Planting Justice$46,00050%
Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties$45,00050%
Empower Me Academy$45,00051%
Spark Program Inc$45,000411%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$44,00050%
Ability Now Bay Area Inc$37,50050%
Good Tidings Foundation$37,50051%
Mbolden Change$35,00052%
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation$35,00050%
Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled$34,00050%
Homework Central$30,00043%
Alive and Free$29,00050%
Family Support Services$25,00050%
Naturebridge$25,00050%
Bichon Furkids Rescue$25,00054%
Operating Engineers Local No 3 Scholarship Foundation$25,00051%
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy$25,00050%
Lifemoves$25,00050%
The California Autoharp Gathering (Cag) Foundation$25,000514%
Environmental Volunteers Inc$25,00051%
Folklore Village Farm Inc$25,00052%
Just Hoop Inc$23,00052%
Northern California Carpentersthomas a Morton Memorial Scholarship Foundation$22,50031%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago$20,00020%
Oakes Children's Center$20,00021%
Dec My Room Inc$20,00041%
Bull Session Charity Golf Tournament$15,00052%
Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area$15,00021%
Friends of Kids Inc$10,000299%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$7,12510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($578k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Morton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNcga Foundation: $375,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetThe Bridge School: $310,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $200,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Vision Capital & Consulting: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Connections Free Clinic Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetStanford Health Care: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGroceries for Seniors: $105,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetChronicle Season of Sharing Fund: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRubicon Programs Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHappy Trails Riding Academy: $75,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetRoot Division: $70,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEast Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring: $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTrips for Kids National: $60,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetThe Basic Fund: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charles Armstrong School: $54,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChabot Space & Science Center Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPalcare Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCuriodyssey: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPlanting Justice: $46,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEmpower Me Academy: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSpark Program Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAbility Now Bay Area Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGood Tidings Foundation: $37,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMbolden Change: $35,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHomework Central: $30,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAlive and Free: $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Support Services: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNaturebridge: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBichon Furkids Rescue: $25,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetOperating Engineers Local No 3 Scholarship Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNational Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLifemoves: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe California Autoharp Gathering (Cag) Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFolklore Village Farm Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetJust Hoop Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNorthern California Carpentersthomas a Morton Memorial Scholarship Foundation: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Chicago: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOakes Children's Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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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 53.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA24× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Monterra Community Fund · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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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How do I get to The Morton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Morton Foundation

How much does The Morton Foundation give?
The Morton Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $808,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Morton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (17%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are The Morton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ncga Foundation ($375k), The Bridge School ($310k), George Mark Childrens Fund ($200k).
Does The Morton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Morton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation.
Where is The Morton Foundation based?
The Morton Foundation is based in CA.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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