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Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$249kArts & Culture$191kHealth$107kFood & Nutrition$49kReligion$42kPhilanthropy$35kHuman Services$31kEnvironment$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$40,000
STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$25,000
NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$23,140
FINE PRINT FUNDING INC$20,000
ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA$12,000
CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC$7,500
FRIENDS OF FAI - THE ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATIO$7,000
NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC$6,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET INC$5,500
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC$5,500
BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA$5,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL INC$3,500
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION$3,500
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$2,850
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 (FY18–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES INC: $200 → 14%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $500 → 17%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $1k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $300 → 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
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$574k · 34 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
27

Total granted

$574k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+20%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • RL
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +37%
  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $88k · revenue +78%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TO
    TABLE OF LIFE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -70%
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
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.

Arts & Culture
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
4
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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6
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment
9
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education
10
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
11
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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12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fine Print Funding 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

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $92,500 · EducationROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOLFINE PRINT FUNDING INC: $60,000 · EducationFINE PRINT FUNDING INCPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SAN…CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $22,000 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL+3 more: $5,700 · EducationNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL INC: $38,500 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL INCTHE FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANKSUMMERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCORPORATED: $18,500 · OtherSUMMERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCORP…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $15,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTE…NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $14,000 · OtherNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INCSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $13,750 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTCASA DEL HERRERO: $12,100 · OtherALL SAINTS BY THE SEA: $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 · OtherNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $23,640 · OtherNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COR…TABLE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Other+31 more: $63,688 · Other+31 moreWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $87,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND …PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePIERRE CLAEYSSENS VET…NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $14,250 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET PRESERVATIO…LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDA…+7 more: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $11,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,300 · HealthTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,250 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $5,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $3,000 · HealthVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,750 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $2,000 · Health+8 more: $4,550 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $9,500 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $5,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,350 · PhilanthropyFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $28,650 · Food & NutritionSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $1,300 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,100 · Human Services+2 more: $700 · Human Services
Education$215,200Other$251,178Arts & Culture$147,750Health$53,100Philanthropy$42,350Food & Nutrition$28,650Human Services$28,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $92,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $87,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFINE PRINT FUNDING INC: $60,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $28,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $23,640 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $14,250 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $12,100 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $11,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTABLE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FAI - THE ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $4,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA: $3,675 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLIDAYS FOR HEROES INC: $2,730 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,303 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $1,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,000 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.

Ann Jackson Family Fo…Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Mosher FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…The Kirby-Jones Found…The Wood-Claeyssens F…The Leslie S and Phil…Brittingham Family Fo…Www FoundationManitou FundThe Nurture Foundation
Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA46.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The Leslie S and Philip L Bernstein Family Fund · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Nurture 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 Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
14report 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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How do I get to Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elizabeth and John Moller 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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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