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Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$65k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$15k9%
FY202423$24k30%
FY202324$20k8%
FY202224$19k0%
FY202125$20k8%
FY202023$17k4%
FY201923$18k9%
FY201824$17k8%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$63kHuman Services$23kInternational$19kEducation$18kReligion$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kHousing & Shelter$6kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
VA
KS
TN
NC
OK
MS
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$30,00090%
Samaritan's Purse$15,50070%
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc$6,00060%
Transitions of Dyer County$5,50090%
Memphis Union Misson$5,30190%
A Step Ahead Foundation Inc$5,00080%
First Presbyterian Church$5,0005n/a
College Hill Presbyterian Church$5,0005n/a
Mifa Corporation$4,50081%
Memphis Library Foundation$4,00080%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$30,00090%
Samaritan's Purse$15,50070%
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc$6,00060%
Transitions of Dyer County$5,50090%
Memphis Union Misson$5,30190%
A Step Ahead Foundation Inc$5,00080%
First Presbyterian Church$5,0005n/a
College Hill Presbyterian Church$5,0005n/a
Mifa Corporation$4,50081%
Memphis Library Foundation$4,00080%
Bridges$3,5006n/a
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$3,00050%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,00060%
March of Dimes Inc$3,00060%
Youth Villages Inc$2,50050%
Boy Scouts of America Inc 558 Chickasaw Council$1,50030%
Shield Inc$1,00020%
Life Choices of Memphis Inc$1,00020%
Calvary Rescue Mission$50010%
American Heart Association Inc$50010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChurch Health Center of Memphis Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTransitions of Dyer County: $5,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMemphis Union Misson: $5,301 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetA Step Ahead Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMifa Corporation: $4,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMemphis Library Foundation: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Villages Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Inc 558 Chickasaw Council: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShield Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLife Choices of Memphis Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalvary Rescue Mission: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Knapp Foundation · Speer Charitable Trust · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Crews Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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About Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation

How much does Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation give?
Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Human Services (13%), International (11%).
Who are Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($30k), Samaritan's Purse ($16k), Church Health Center of Memphis Inc ($6k).
Does Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, The Knapp Foundation, Speer Charitable Trust.
Where is Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation based?
Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation is based in TN.

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 42 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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