· Private foundation
George and Shirley Moore Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLATTSBURGH YMCA | $50,000 |
| ADIRONDACK community FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN SOCIAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| KEESEVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO | $5,000 |
| WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL | $5,000 |
| EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| NORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDEN | $2,000 |
| NYS GRANGE EDUCATION CULTURAL FDN | $2,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $1,500 |
| PLATTSBURGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIO | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY | $1,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY HONOR FLIGHT | $1,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COAST BASKETBALL CAMP | $500 |
| KEESEVILLE FREE LIBRARY | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of George and Shirley Moore Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AAADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE INC2× · 2018–2021 · $105k · revenue +180%
- WAWE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ACK CIVIC CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $100k
- HWHEART WELL HOMESTEAD INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- ASADIRONDACK SKY CENTER OBSERVATORYone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To foster and support the growth of sustainable North Country communities through providing assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners.
To develop affordable low income housing and economic development projects in northern new york state.
The mission of northland working training center is to advance the economic well-being of western new york by developing and maintaining a skilled and diverse workforce to meet the needs of the advanced manufacturing and energy sectors,…
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.
Adkaction creates projects that address unmet needs, promote vibrant communities, and preserve the natural beauty of the adirondacks for all.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Community Action Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Country Honor Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY MISSION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ACK CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds HEART WELL HOMESTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN SOCIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOINT COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF CLINTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds KEESEVILLE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FALLS HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of the Adirondack Region Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization George and Shirley Moore Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.