Colorado · Nonprofit
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,456,929 to it, the largest being Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation ($4,882,500). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 178
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $113M
What Morris Animal Foundation does
Mission
Morris Animal Foundation's (the foundation's) mission is to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals. Since the foundation's founding in 1948, more than 20,000 species have been helped through scientific studies and the development of new treatments, diagnostic tools, and vaccines.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal health studies: the foundation funds researchers around the world who are solving critical health problems in animals, including dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas, and wildlife. The foundation's work is helping researchers in the field find new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for diseases and other health concerns for animals around the world, including many endangered species.
$8,209,609 spentof which $6,597,871 as grants$201,500 earned by the program71% of program spendingProgram awareness: the foundations mission is to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals. Raising awareness about the foundations programs and impact is a component to fulfilling the mission. Program awareness efforts also support the foundations golden retriever lifetime study, the largest and longest study ever undertaken in the united states to understand cancer in dogs. Annual campaigns aim to generate awareness and support for critical animal health issues such as the stop cancer furever campaign and inspiring donations for fund prevention and treatment. The foundation also distributes ongoing animal health information to supporters and the general public through direct mail, quarterly newsletters, social media, public relations and a range of digital contact including a website that houses resources for all aforementioned efforts.
$3,401,737 spentof which $354,827 as grants29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,611,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $91M to $111M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Vern Norviel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $2.4M.
38 of 178 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 178 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 50% · 2019 39% · 2020 51% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115 on record.
- Refunds-Overpayment Charges$115
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION?
- MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,456,929 to it, the largest being Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation ($4,882,500). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 178 organizations giving $22,456,929 in grants to MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION, 116 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION?
- Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,882,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 178 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing