FundersNorth Carolina

The Morgan Foundation Inc

Laurel Hill, NC · EIN 56-1790979. Reported 77 grants totalling $533,250 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$533,250granted, 2021-2024
32organizations funded
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,269,026assets, latest filing

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. The Morgan Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,400 and $10,300; the smallest was $500 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Scotland County Family Counseling Center IncLaurinburg, NC$70,000442024
Growing ChangeLaurinburg, NC$60,000442024
Project InasmuchLaurinburg, NC$60,000442024
Church in the PinesLaurel Hill, NC$55,000442024
Scotland Community Health ClinicLaurinburg, NC$37,500222023
Church Community ServicesLaurinburg, NC$25,300332024
Live Like MadisonLaurinburg, NC$23,000442024
Domestic Violence & Rape Crisis CenterLaurinburg, NC$21,000332023
Hospice of Scotland CountyLaurinburg, NC$20,000442024
St Andrews UniversityLaurinburg, NC$20,000112021
Trinity Presbyterian ChurchLaurinburg, NC$19,800322024
Cross Pointe Christian AcademyLaurinburg, NC$12,500112023
Habitat for HumanityLaurinburg, NC$12,000442024
Monroe Camp & Retreat CenterLaurel Hill, NC$12,000332024
American Cancer SocietyLaurinburg, NC$10,000442024
Restoring Hope Center IncLaurinburg, NC$10,000112024
Scotland Memorial FoundationLaurinburg, NC$9,600442024
Scots for Youth IncLaurinburg, NC$8,500222024
Laurinburg Tis the SeasonLaurinburg, NC$8,000442024
Scotland County Literacy CouncilLaurinburg, NC$8,000222022
Total Women Outreach MinistryLaurinburg, NC$8,000442024
Partners in MinistryLaurinburg, NC$6,000222023
Family Promise of Scotland County IncLaurinburg, NC$5,000112024
Laurel Hill First Baptist ChurchLaurel Hill, NC$3,350112024
Lifesaver Outreach FoundationWagram, NC$3,000112023
Laurinburg Presbyterian ChurchLaurinburg, NC$1,100112022
Cape Fear Council Boy Scouts of AmericaLaurinburg, NC$1,000112023
Lifesaver MinistriesLaurinburg, NC$1,000112024
Scotland County Parks & RecreationLaurinburg, NC$1,000112023
National Child Safety Council Co Scotland County Sheriff's DepartmentLaurinburg, NC$600112024
St David's Episcopal ChurchLaurinburg, NC$500112024
Union Grove Baptist ChurchLaurinburg, NC$500112024

19 of 32 (59%) 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 79%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Medical Research
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$137,900$10,000
202219$147,800$5,000
202320$113,900$2,750
202423$133,650$5,000

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

Laurinburg, NC
$460K
Laurel Hill, NC
$70K
Wagram, NC
$3K

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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.

United Way of Scotland County Inc6 shared recipientsFood Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc4 shared recipientsRestoring Hope Center Inc3 shared recipientsFoundation for the Carolinas3 shared recipientsThe Cannon Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Morgan Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1167, Laurel Hill, NC, 28351. 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.

EIN 56-1790979 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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