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Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$130kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$519k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO$6,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$6,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
SIENA COLLEGE$5,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$4,000
SUNY PLATTSBURGH$3,000
VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $1k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $1k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $2k → 9%SUNY ADIRONDACK: $2k → 10%SUNY MORRISVILLE: $1k → 11%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $1k → 11%UNION COLLEGE: $1k → 12%LEMOYNE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%SUNY ONEONTA: $2k → 13%SUNY PLATTSBURGH: $3k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%SUNY ALBANY: $2k → 14%ST BONAVENTURE UNIV: $1k → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $1k → 16%SUNY OSWEGO: $1k → 17%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA STATE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 7%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%VIRGINIA TECH: $2k → 21%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $2k → 9%SUNY ADIRONDACK: $1k → 10%SUNY SCHENECTADY: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $6k → 13%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $1k → 13%NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $2k → 9%SUNY ADIRONDACK: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $1k → 13%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $2k → 14%SUNY POTSDAM: $1k → 18%SAGE COLLEGE OF ALBANY: $1k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund’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.

Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60k · 13 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
45

Total granted

$60k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+16%

Still filing today

31%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +29%
  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +5%
  • LM
    Le Moyne College
    2× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SA
    SUNY ALBANY
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • AC
    ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +10%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina State. 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 81 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%83%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%89%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,727

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.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUNY ADIRONDACK — $8,166 · OtherSUNY ADIRONDACKUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO — $7,053 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALOSUNY PLATTSBURGH — $5,000 · OtherSUNY PLATTSBURGHCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIER — $4,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIERSUNY NEW PALTZ — $4,333 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZSUNY ALBANY — $4,000 · OtherSUNY ALBANYIndividual grant recipient — $3,553 · OtherSUNY ONEONTA — $2,500 · Other+27 more — $29,984 · Other+27 moreSIENA UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $6,886 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITYBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $4,333 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYVanderbilt University — $4,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityLe Moyne College — $2,500 · EducationALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES — $2,250 · EducationThe George Washington University — $2,250 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $2,000 · Education+16 more — $17,825 · Education+16 moreNORTH CAROLINA STATE — $1,053 · Recreation & Sports
Other$74,089Education$55,544Recreation & Sports$1,053

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 budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $6,886 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $4,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY — $1,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College — $1,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $1,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE — $1,053 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $1,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $1,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $1,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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