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The Morgan Foundation Inc

Laurel Hill, NC · EIN 56-1790979. Reported 100 grants totalling $709,000 to 39 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$709,000granted, 2021-2025
39recipients, as named on its returns
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,604,857assets, 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 $2,500 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
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
30 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Project InasmuchLaurinburg, NC$80,000552025
Scotland County Family Counseling Center IncLaurinburg, NC$70,000442024
Church in the PinesLaurel Hill, NC$63,000552025
Growing ChangeLaurinburg, NC$60,000442024
St Andrews UniversityLaurinburg, NC$40,000222025
Scotland Community Health ClinicLaurinburg, NC$37,500222023
Church Community ServicesLaurinburg, NC$30,300442025
Trinity Presbyterian ChurchLaurinburg, NC$29,800432025
Live Like MadisonLaurinburg, NC$25,500552025
Hospice of Scotland CountyLaurinburg, NC$25,000552025
Domestic Violence & Rape Crisis CenterLaurinburg, NC$21,000332023
Scotland County SchoolsLaurinburg, NC$20,000112025
Monroe Camp & Retreat CenterLaurel Hill, NC$17,000442025
Scots for Youth IncLaurinburg, NC$15,500332025
Family Promise of Scotland County IncLaurinburg, NC$15,000222025
Habitat for HumanityLaurinburg, NC$15,000552025
Scotland Family Counseling Center IncLaurinburg, NC$15,000112025
Total Women Outreach MinistryLaurinburg, NC$13,000552025
American Cancer SocietyLaurinburg, NC$12,500552025
Cross Pointe Christian AcademyLaurinburg, NC$12,500112023
Cross Pointe ChurchLaurinburg, NC$12,000112025
Scotland Memorial FoundationLaurinburg, NC$12,000552025
Restoring Hope Center IncLaurinburg, NC$10,000112024
Laurinburg Tis the SeasonLaurinburg, NC$8,000442024
Scotland County Literacy CouncilLaurinburg, NC$8,000222022
Laurel Hill First Baptist ChurchLaurel Hill, NC$7,000222025
Vita Choices Pregnancy CenterLaurinburg, NC$6,700112025
Partners in MinistryLaurinburg, NC$6,000222023
Gibson Pentecostal Holiness ChurchGibson, NC$5,000112025
North Carolina SymphonyRaleigh, NC$5,000112025
Lifesaver Outreach FoundationWagram, NC$3,000112023
Scotland County Partnership for Children and Families - Smart Start ProgramLaurinburg, NC$2,000112025
Union Grove Baptist ChurchLaurinburg, NC$1,500222025
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

23 of 39 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 74%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
6 grants
Medical Research
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Mental Health
5 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants

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
202523$175,750$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
$613K
Laurel Hill, NC
$83K
Gibson, NC
$5K
Raleigh, NC
$5K
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

United Way of Scotland County Inc7 shared recipientsFoundation for the Carolinas5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFood Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsRestoring Hope Center Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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.

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