Morgridge Family Foundation
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About Morgridge Family Foundation
The Morgridge Family Foundation concentrates its giving on strengthening hands‑on STEM and experiential learning environments, investing heavily in both capital projects and programmatic innovation. Its grants support building and renovating physical learning spaces (aquarium exhibits, campus facilities) and underwriting education accelerators and certificate programs that scale K‑12 and workforce learning. Funding is high‑value and targeted to a small number of institutional partners, often with repeat support.
Focus Areas
Informal STEM learning institutions and exhibits (aquariums, science centers)Education innovation accelerators and teacher/learner certificate programsDevelopment of campus-based learning facilities (university campus expansions and learning commons)Capital projects that create or upgrade physical education/programmatic spaces
Who They Fund
K–12 students (including specific grade-level programs like 7th grade)High school and dual-enrollment students/college access participantsFoster youth and child-welfare impacted youth
About Morgridge Family Foundation
The Morgridge Family Foundation’s most distinctive recent pattern is large, construction-linked support for STEM learning spaces. A $2.5 million grant to Shedd Aquarium Society in 2025 and a $2 million grant in 2024 both backed the Dive Deeper Campaign, including educational spaces, a new Learning Commons, aquatic education areas, and capital construction. That same hands-on learning emphasis appears in grants to universities, schools, and innovation hubs that blend physical space with program design. The foundation also funds education accelerators and workforce-facing learning models. Mindspark Learning received $1.5 million in 2024 for the Morgridge Education Accelerator, the Morgridge Innovation Certificate Program, and ongoing operations, followed by another $1.5 million in 2025 for general support. Other grants extend the same pattern into campus-based programming, apprenticeship pathways, and school-level STEM instruction. Across the recent grants list, the foundation favors institutional partners and often returns to the same organizations in consecutive years, suggesting sustained support rather than one-time awards. Its portfolio reaches beyond formal education into housing, food access, health, veterans services, and family support, but the clearest throughline is investment in environments and programs that change how people learn and train.
What Morgridge Family Foundation Funds
In informal STEM learning, the foundation backed Shedd Aquarium Society with $2.5 million in 2025 for the Dive Deeper Campaign and educational spaces, including the Learning Commons and aquatic education areas. It also gave $500,000 to National Jewish Health for capital construction on Morgridge Academy, showing interest in place-based learning infrastructure. For education innovation and student pathways, Mindspark Learning received $1.5 million for the Morgridge Education Accelerator and Morgridge Innovation Certificate Program, while Denver School of Science and Technology Inc. received $311,000 and $260,000 for Physics in a Box across all 7th grade classrooms. The foundation also supported Arizona State University Foundation for expanding learning opportunities and success for Florida high school students through dual enrollment. Its workforce and career-connected giving includes $500,000 to Reach University for the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree and $500,000 to Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation for the Classroom to Career Hub Capital Initiative and Morgridge Peer Mentoring Program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$13M
Total Assets
$243.9M
Total Revenue
$19M
Total Expenses
$19.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1K and $25K, with a median of $6K.
25th Percentile
$1K
Median
$6K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
National30 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CO.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Morgridge Family Foundation Funds
Top 3 recipient countries by grant volume for Morgridge Family Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 569 | $38M | 99.7% |
| 2 | United Kingdom |
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