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Alfred Moore Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$528kHuman Services$208kFood & Nutrition$124kHealth$100kHousing & Shelter$66kPhilanthropy$51kArts & Culture$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOFFORD COLLEGE$25,000
SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL$25,000
HALTER THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$20,000
CONVERSE COLLEGE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
SPACE$17,000
MOBILE MEALS$12,000
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPBURG CNTY$10,000
CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER$8,000
ADULT LEARNING CENTER$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTAT$5,000
MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Alfred Moore Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Alfred Moore Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -46% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-46%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SD
    SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +65%
  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +43%
  • HC
    HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WO
    WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -46%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY- SPARTANBURG
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
2
Spalding University Inc

Spalding university is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the sisters of charity of nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded…

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
5
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
6
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
7
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
8
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
9
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
10
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
11
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
12
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Learning Center; the most unlike its peers is Warriors Once Again. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $190,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOLWOFFORD COLLEGE: $155,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGEHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $135,000 · OtherHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDRENMOBILE MEALS: $123,500 · OtherMOBILE MEALSIndividual grant recipient: $118,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPACE: $112,000 · OtherSPACEWOFFORD: $90,000 · OtherWOFFORDCONVERSE: $90,000 · OtherCONVERSEHALTER THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $70,000 · OtherHALTER THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPBURG CNTY: $60,000 · Other+7 more: $114,500 · Other+7 moreCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationCONVERSE U…ADULT LEARNING CENTER: $14,000 · EducationADULT LEAR…Spartanburg County Foundation: $51,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $45,500 · Arts & CultureUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWARRIORS ONCE AGAIN: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,258,000Education$144,000Philanthropy$51,000Arts & Culture$45,500Human Services$45,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $190,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $135,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $51,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $45,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS): $30,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER: $14,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) ↗
  • Who funds ADULT LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Anna M Black Charitable FoundationSC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · J M Smith Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Rose and Walter Montgomery Foundation · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alfred Moore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred Moore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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