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The Morton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $559k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $75,000 |
| THE BRIDGE SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE | $40,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SANTA CLARA AND SAN MATEO COUNTIES | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FREE CLINIC INC | $25,000 |
| STANFORD HOSPITALS AND CLINICS | $25,000 |
| GROCERIES FOR SENIORS | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| BAYCAT | $20,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $20,000 |
| RUBICON PROGRAMS INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $20,000 |
| ROOT DIVISION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NFNCGA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +271%
- GMGeorge Mark Childrens Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +76%
- CVCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -39%
- CACOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEANRING WRITING COACHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
To provide high quality educational childcare for children 0 to 12 years of age and to strengthen and support families throughout Santa Clara County.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To offer special education (k-12) based on the latest research for children facing significant challenges in communication, sensory processing and social relations for the benefit of individuals and the public on a non- discriminatory…
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is The California Autoharp Gathering (Cag) Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 68 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 NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Bridge School ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds Groceries for Seniors ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Root Division ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds PALCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Planting Justice ↗
- Who funds Empower Me Academy ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MBOLDEN CHANGE ↗
- Who funds MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled ↗
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: 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
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 Morton 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.
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