The Morris Foundation Grant

The Morris Foundation Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The Morris Foundation
Last Updated: August 18, 2025

Summary

The Morris Foundation Grant seeks to honor the legacy of Jack B. Morris by investing in nonprofit organizations that enhance education, healthcare, and social services in Fort Worth. With a commitment to measurable outcomes, the Foundation provides essential support to tax-exempt organizations that demonstrate a direct impact on their communities. This approach aims to create lasting change for over 2.1 million residents in Texas's third-largest county, continuing the tradition of comprehensive support and intervention.

Overview

About the Foundation Our mission reflects what Jack B. Morris modeled in his life and business. He was a man who practiced what he preached, and he believed that comprehensive support of others was a duty and a privilege that we must all undertake according to our means. Even in his early years as a father and businessman, Jack opened his home to another family experiencing hardship. Jack knew that the family was facing immeasurable difficulties and that without his help, they would be facing homelessness, food scarcity, and even worse outcomes. He gave them shelter, food, and a job as a truck driver at his mattress manufacturing company. Through these acts, he set the Foundation’s eventual path of understanding that comprehensive interventions and solutions are the only way to lasting change. We honor Jack’s legacy today by following that same model, only now with a bigger scope of approximately 2.1 million individuals across Texas’s third largest county. What We Do The Morris Foundation is a private family foundation that makes investments in nonprofit agencies that create improvement in the education, healthcare, and social service systems. The Foundation’s priority is funding agencies that produce measurable outcomes and have lasting impact in our community. Grants Jack B. and Linda C. Morris dedicated their legacy to permanently leaving their mark on the Fort Worth community. It is the Foundation’s desire to honor their life and legacy by making strategic investments in organizations, programs, and systems that produce lasting change within our communities.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The following are general eligibility requirements for submitting a grant proposal.Organizations must be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) and be classified as a public charity under section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a qualified public entity as described in section 170(c) of the Code.Organizations seeking funding must demonstrate a direct impact on improving education, healthcare, or social service outcomes for clients in Fort Worth.Organizations should be prepared to develop and share metrics measuring the effectiveness of their programs.

Ineligibility

The Morris Foundation does not award grants to individuals, international organizations, capital programs, political organizations, or scholarship programs.