Morrison & Foerster Foundation

Analysis

Morrison & Foerster Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Morrison & Foerster Foundation reported income of $5.1m and spending of $4.5m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $3.7m to $5.1m (+37%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Morrison & Foerster Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LJ Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund ($5.1m), Buhl Regional Health Foundation ($5.1m) and Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc ($5.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.5m.