· Private foundation
Gordon E and Betty I Moore 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k231 grants · $358k
- $10k–50k125 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k160 grants · $24M
- $250k+404 grants · $376M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROAD INSTITUTE INC | $20,000,000 |
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $10,000,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $8,250,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $8,000,000 |
| RESOURCES LEGACY FUND | $6,500,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $5,000,000 |
| PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $4,250,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS FOUNDATION | $3,990,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION | $3,500,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $3,400,000 |
| CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC | $3,322,613 |
| UNIVERSITAET WIEN | $3,222,267 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $3,191,160 |
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 US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($2.2B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($460M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($460M)
36 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation’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, 32% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 30% — 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 +41% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1017 repeat relationships — 435 still active in FY2024, 582 since wound down; 145 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34M 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
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $95M · revenue +62%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY8× · 2017–2024 · $70M · revenue +35%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society8× · 2017–2024 · $41M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10M
- CCCOAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5.0M
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is The Camille and Henry Dreyfus 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1421 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. 1421 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION X LABS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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: Atkinson Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Bothin Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc
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 Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation 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.
- Community Care Cooperative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- The American Society for Cell Biology — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.