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The Stacey C & Robert R Morse Family Foundation at a glance

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The Stacey C & Robert R Morse Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
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0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$78kEducation$66kSocial Science$40kEnvironment$6kPhilanthropy$6kHealth$6kInternational$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,033
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$2,033
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $35k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25k → 14%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%THE HILL SCHOOL: $1k → 7%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $76k → 17%LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST: $1k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $3k → 9%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 8%BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1k → 17%TETON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 5%PARK AVE ARMORY: $2k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $5k → 5%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE - WOMENS HEALTH SYMPOSIUM: $750 → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER TETON AREA: $1k → 5%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1k → 17%JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $1k → 5%MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NY: $1k → 17%DANCER'S WORKSHOP: $900 → 5%THE DOE FUND: $750 → 17%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

VT
NY
MA
WY
PA
CT
VA
FL
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 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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Tower Hill School Association

Tower hill school prepares students from diverse backgrounds for full and creative engagement with a dynamic world. each student is provided with an educational experience that emphasizes the development of an inquisitive, discerning and…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
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Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Deerfield Academy; the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $75,930 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC+1 more: $900 · Arts & CultureHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLYALE UNIVERSITY: $23,099 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYHARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+4 more: $4,877 · Other+4 moreTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD A…Trustees of Tufts College: $15,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Colle…+3 more: $3,000 · Education+3 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · HealthHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $2,500 · InternationalTHE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $1,000 · InternationalJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE DOE FUND INC: $750 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$76,830Other$72,976Education$43,000Philanthropy$6,000Health$5,000International$3,500Environment$1,000Housing & Shelter$750

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $75,930 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP: $900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $750 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Stacey C & Robert R Morse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stacey C & Robert R Morse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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Find your warmest path to The Stacey C & Robert R Morse Family 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.

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 22 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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