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Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundation at a glance

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Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$341kReligion$82kArts & Culture$32kCivil Rights$10kHealth$5kScience & Tech$3kPhilanthropy$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$706k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$10,150
JOFFREY BALLET$3,332
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$3,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,500
HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY$1,500
KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$1,300
CSO INC$1,036
OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES$650
FORA$530
LANDMARKS$500
Individual grant recipient$450
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER CHICAGO$400
WFMT$365
Individual grant recipient$270
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD VARSITY CLUB: $650 → 16%SPARK CHARTER SCHOOL: $5k → 8%CSO INC: $1k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%MUSIC OF BAROQUE: $1k → 14%CSO INC: $1k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $81k → 11%MUSIC OF BAROQUE: $500 → 14%CSO INC: $1k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 11%LANDMARKS: $500 → 14%CSO INC: $1k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $42k → 11%LANDMARKS: $500 → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%MUSIC OF BAROQUE: $500 → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%MUSIC OF BAROQUE: $450 → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $2k → 14%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 14%HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $1k → 14%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES: $650 → 14%HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $550 → 14%HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $500 → 14%HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $2k → 14%UCHICAGO RESEARCH INT'L LTD: $2k → 14%UCHICAGO RESEARCH INT'L LTD: $2k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $1k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $32k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $27k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $13k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL: $5k → 14%TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $1k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $4k → 14%TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $500 → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $1k → 14%TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $500 → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $7k → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $3k → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $3k → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $3k → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $3k → 14%JOFFREY BALLET: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
NC
GA
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.
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.
$474k · 21 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$474k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $897 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +51%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +26%
  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SC
    SPARK CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -100%
  • CI
    CENTRAL ILLINOIS LANDMARK FND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Spark Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $303,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $27,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER+4 more: $5,950 · EducationK A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $82,114 · OtherK A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREG…WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $10,389 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSSPARK CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherHISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $4,050 · OtherCSO INC: $4,036 · Other+18 more: $11,896 · Other+18 moreTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $21,332 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUChicago Research International: $3,000 · HealthFORA HEALTH INC: $2,654 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ANESTHESIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $550 · HealthThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $250 · HealthNorthwestern University: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $400 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $127 · Food & NutritionFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 · Philanthropy
Education$336,450Other$117,485Arts & Culture$23,332Health$6,454Recreation & Sports$1,000Youth Development$400Food & Nutrition$127Philanthropy$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $303,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $21,332 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUChicago Research International: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORA HEALTH INC: $2,654 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $867 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANESTHESIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds SPARK CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UChicago Research International ↗
  • Who funds FORA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANESTHESIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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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