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.

The Morton Foundation

The Morton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Morton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$808k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

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 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $114k
$10k–50k35 grants · $559k
$50k–250k2 grants · $135k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YOUTH ON COURSE	$75,000
THE BRIDGE SCHOOL	$60,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE	$40,000
COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING	$30,000
GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA	$30,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SANTA CLARA AND SAN MATEO COUNTIES	$30,000
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FREE CLINIC INC	$25,000
GROCERIES FOR SENIORS	$25,000
STANFORD HOSPITALS AND CLINICS	$25,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND	$20,000
RUBICON PROGRAMS INCORPORATED	$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$20,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR	$20,000
BAYCAT	$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 65 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

-39%

Still filing today

77%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

NF
NCGA FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +634%
GM
George Mark Childrens Fund
5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +76%
CV
COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING
5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +106%

Funded once

TO
THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -39%
CA
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEANRING WRITING COACH
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education

The San Francisco School

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.

—

The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education

California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health

Children's Council of San Francisco

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…

Human Services

Sjb Child Development Centers

To provide high quality educational childcare for children 0 to 12 years of age and to strengthen and support families throughout Santa Clara County.

—

Association of California School Administrators

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.

—

Oak Hill School of California

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…

Education

Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

—

San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights

California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund; 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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

39/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,979,125Health$537,500Education$460,000Human Services$375,500Food & Nutrition$355,000Arts & Culture$170,000Community Improvement$150,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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