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H L Moses Est Henry & Lucy Moses Fdt Tr

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$9.6MCrime & Legal$235kRecreation & Sports$200kHuman Services$180kPhilanthropy$150kEducation$130kFood & Nutrition$90kHealth$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,165,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY LUCY MOSES FUND$2,165,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 17%BRONX WORKS: $15k → 28%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 17%JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
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The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
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Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
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New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
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New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr22%14%20–35yr14%45%35–55yr9%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr22%7%20–35yr14%61%35–55yr9%32%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
3,927/36,047

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HENRY LUCY MOSES FUND — $8,787,000 · OtherHENRY LUCY MOSES FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $2,093,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+21 more — $830,000 · Other+21 moreBARGEMUSIC LTD — $135,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $170,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · HealthCITY HARVEST INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND — $15,000 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$11,710,150Arts & Culture$625,000Recreation & Sports$200,000Philanthropy$150,000Health$100,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $170,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARGEMUSIC LTD — $135,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $90,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP TO END HOMELESSNESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Henry and Lucy Moses …Jewish Communal FundThe Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Booth Ferris Foundati…Mother Cabrini Health…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Henry and Lucy Moses Fund IncNY24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 H L Moses Est Henry & Lucy Moses Fdt Tr 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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