Morris Family Fund
Henderson, NV · EIN 88-0379711. Reported 84 grants totalling $2,577,623 to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Morris Family Fund did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $280,530. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Give Foundation Inc | Palo Alto, CA | $608,817 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation - School of Public Health | Berkeley, CA | $438,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Edelgive | New York, NY | $277,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dasra | Houston, TX | $204,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ummeed Child Development Fund | Quincy, MA | $148,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| People for Public Leadership | Dover, DE | $104,751 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Angkor Hospital for Children | Putney, VA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ladera Recreation District | Portola Valley, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ummeed Child Development Center | Quincy, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Woodside Priory School | Portola Valley, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Families for Children | Stockton, NJ | $41,700 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| International Village Clinic | Bloomington, MN | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Berkeley Community Fund | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Acorn International and Womens Research & Action Group | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amigo Cercano | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Give Foundation - Tara Mobile Creches | Palo Alto, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ucsf Benioff Children's Hospitals Foundation | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Ventures | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Easterseals Ucp | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Glide Memorial Church | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| NAMI | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Spahr Center | Corte Madera, CA | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Berkeley Community Scholars | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Photographer's Union | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Ashram Fund | New Lebanon, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio | St Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Liberty Ukraine Foundation | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Razom for Ukraine | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| African Library Project | Mount Royal, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Badrikashrama | San Leandro, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charity Water | Hagerstown, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | Hagerstown, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food Bank of Cc & Solano Counties | Concord, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa | Concord, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Highlander Research & Education Center | New Market, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Immigration Equality | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Redf | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples | Arcata, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unicef | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union Theological Seminary - Poor People's Campaign | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $3,072 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Academy for Cerebral Palsy & Dev Medicine | Milwaukee, WI | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cure Psp | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Innocence Project | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| NAMI | San Jose, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Posna | Oakbrook Terrace, IL | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Well Done Foundation | Shelby, MT | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cp Research Network | Greenville, SC | $2,030 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Public Media | Saint Paul, MN | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Andrea's Dream Rescue | Nevada City, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Novel Writing Month | Berkeley, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pro Publica | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tibet Fund | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saving Shasta Cats | Dunsmuir, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Give 2 Asia Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $753 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Propublica | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
18 of 60 (30%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 26%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Razom for Ukraine
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What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $633,355 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 21 | $663,260 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $630,257 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $650,751 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 53% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Morris Family Fund's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 10624 South Eastern Ave A370, Henderson, NV, 89052. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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