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Franklin H & Nancy S Moore 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$151kHuman Services$83kPhilanthropy$62kEnvironment$36kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$33kHealth$28kAnimals$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stratford Festival of America$10,000
St Clair Historical Museum$5,000
St Clair Art Assn$5,000
Thumbcoast Theater$5,000
Kids in Distress$5,000
United Way of St Clair Co$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,250
Building Hope in the City$4,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$3,000
Doctors Without Borders$3,000
Adult Guardianship Services$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,250
Conservation Law Foundation$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Fox Run Scholarship Fund$2,000
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, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%Northampton Survival Center: $2k → 12%Northampton Survival Center: $2k → 12%Northampton Survival Center: $2k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $500 → 16%ADULT GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $3k → 17%ADULT GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $3k → 17%Adult Guardianship Services: $3k → 17%Adult Guardianship Services: $3k → 17%Adult Guardianship Services: $3k → 17%Blue Water Safe Horizons: $1k → 13%Blue Water Safe Horizons: $1k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $1k → 13%Blue Water Safe Horizons: $1k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $1k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $1k → 13%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

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MI
NY
MA
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CT
CA
KY
VA
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HI
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$447k · 42 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
28

Total granted

$447k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

57%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • SS
    STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA
    3× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    ST CLAIR ART ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +86%
  • BH
    BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • RT
    Riverbank Theater
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • SF
    Stratford Fedtival of America
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MT
    MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
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
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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8
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
9
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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10
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wild Swan Theater. 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

47 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. 47 of the 79 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR CO: $45,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COKIDS IN DISTRESS: $36,000 · OtherKIDS IN DISTRESSSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA: $35,000 · OtherSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICASt Clair Historical Museum: $30,000 · OtherSt Clair Historical MuseumRiverbank Theater: $18,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOC: $14,500 · OtherBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $19,000 · Other+48 more: $176,250 · Other+48 moreST CLAIR ART ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureAdult Guardianship Services: $15,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZONS: $6,000 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $9,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,000 · InternationalEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · InternationalELE'S PLACE INC: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS GROUP: $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $13,000 · AnimalsNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $6,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · Animals
Other$373,750Arts & Culture$38,000Human Services$35,500Environment$32,000International$29,000Youth Development$22,250Animals$19,500

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 budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST CLAIR ART ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAdult Guardianship Services: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZONS: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS GROUP: $5,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN MICHIGAN: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGARRETT'S SPACE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMSI US: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnn Arbor Art Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPackard Health Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SWAN THEATER: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE N2 HOME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ST CLAIR ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Adult Guardianship Services ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds GARRETT'S SPACE ↗

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 Arbor Area Community FoundationMI19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Boston Foundation Inc · DTE Energy Foundation · The Wadhams Family Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harold and Jean Grossman Family Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Franklin H & Nancy S Moore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin H & Nancy S Moore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Franklin H & Nancy S Moore 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 79 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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