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David and Linda Moscow Foundation at a glance

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David and Linda Moscow 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.

$144k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$275kArts & Culture$171kPhilanthropy$144kEducation$118kRecreation & Sports$75kInternational$62kReligion$49kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
$5,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$442k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION$25,000
PALM BEACH SYMPHONY$15,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$12,000
THE RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
SHALVA$10,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$7,500
CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION$6,515
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION$5,800
WALK 4 HEARING CHICAGO$5,000
GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE$5,000
GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL$5,000
PALM BEACH OPERA$3,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$3,000
ISRAEL TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTERS$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 17%HIGH RIDGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%URBAN INITIATIVES: $25k → 14%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%SHALVA: $10k → 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
IA
OH
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$593k · 30 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
35

Total granted

$593k
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+29%

Still filing today

80%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue +12%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +13%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTRINSIC SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +49%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • TT
    TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -20%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
7
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
11
The Musical Arts Association

The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is High Ridge Charitable Foundation Inc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $131,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOU…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE &…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $11,000 · HealthRehabilitation Instit…+4 more: $12,100 · Health+4 moreCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION: $30,515 · OtherCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATIONJEWISH FEDERAION OF PALM BEACH: $18,750 · OtherJEWISH FEDERAION OF PALM BEAC…PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · OtherISRAEL TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTERS: $12,500 · OtherBOCA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,879 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherCHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL: $10,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $10,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $50,000 · OtherNorthwestern UniversityALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FO…+18 more: $63,220 · Other+18 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $58,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $55,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…FRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $17,850 · PhilanthropyFRENCHMANS CREEK …The Chicago Community Trust: $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Commu…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $9,400 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical C…TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS…THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $17,150 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH S…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $12,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,500 · Arts & CultureThe United State…PALM BEACH OPERA INC: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA…APERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,500 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $2,707 · Arts & CultureINTRINSIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 · EducationINTRINSIC SCHOO…FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTI…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $13,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $22,300 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,800 · Human ServicesSHALVA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,750 · Human Services
Health$191,100Other$264,864Philanthropy$151,150Arts & Culture$147,357Education$136,000International$64,300Human Services$52,550

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 budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $131,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTRINSIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $58,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $55,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $22,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $17,850 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $17,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALVA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $9,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH RIDGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $208 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $29 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 David and Linda Moscow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Linda Moscow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 73 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home