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The Morgan Charitable Foundation

Beaumont, TX · EIN 76-0589391. Reported 62 grants totalling $1,795,301 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$1,795,301granted, 2021-2024
30organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,734,150assets, 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 Charitable Foundation 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 $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,874 and $31,937; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

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
Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TX$343,508442024
Setx ChurchBeaumont, TX$250,000112024
Garth HouseBeaumont, TX$163,500332024
CASABeaumont, TX$135,000222024
Power Castle MinistriesBeaumont, TX$135,000222024
Bibles & BikesBeaumont, TX$122,008442024
Family Services of Southeast TexasBeaumont, TX$110,000222024
Some Other PlaceBeaumont, TX$110,000222024
Texas a & M KingsvilleKingsville, TX$71,932442024
Joe Pyburn FoundationBeaumont, TX$40,000222024
St Anne Catholic SchoolBeaumont, TX$30,862112024
Hope CenterBeaumont, TX$30,000222024
Nutrition Services for SeniorsBeaumont, TX$30,000222024
The Arc of Greater BeaumontBeaumont, TX$30,000222024
The Walker Belden FoundationBoerne, TX$25,000222024
All My Heart Haiti IncVienna, VA$24,500332024
Shorkey Center of BeaumontBeaumont, TX$20,000222024
Trinity Weekday MinistriesBeaumont, TX$20,000222024
Art Museum of Southeast TexasBeaumont, TX$15,000222024
Cardiovascular Foundation of Southeast TexasBeaumont, TX$15,000332023
Angelo State UniversitySan Angelo, TX$14,491222022
SettaBeaumont, TX$12,000332024
Girls' HavenBeaumont, TX$10,000112022
West End Little LeagueBeaumont, TX$10,000112022
Westgate Memorial Baptist ChurchBeaumont, TX$10,000112024
Austin SmilesAustin, TX$9,500332023
Lamar University Women's TennisBeaumont, TX$5,000112022
Antioch Missionary Baptist ChurchBeaumont, TX$1,000112023
Kountze Evangelistic District ChurcSilsbee, TX$1,000112024
Youth Young Adult Fellowship AllianceSilsbee, TX$1,000112021

21 of 30 (70%) 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 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
11 grants
Religion
5 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$80,141$8,084
202224$683,984$15,000
20238$107,988$8,238
202422$923,188$15,348

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. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$1.8M
Virginia
$24K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation7 shared recipientsFoundation for Southeast Texas Inc6 shared recipientsWilton and Effie Hebert Foundation4 shared recipientsMildred Yount Manion4 shared recipientsMamie Mcfaddin Ward Heritage Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. 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 Texas.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Morgan Charitable Foundation'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: 801 Laurel, Beaumont, TX, 77701. 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 76-0589391 · 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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