· Public charity
Horace A Moses Foundation
The Horace Moses Foundation's primary purpose is to support the Boston Foundation, Inc.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Horace A Moses Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Horace A Moses Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $88k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) | $20,000 |
| Mass Leap | $20,000 |
| Friends of the Children - Boston | $20,000 |
| The Institute for Pan African Cultural Education Inc | $10,000 |
| Junior Achievement Inc | $10,000 |
| Generations Incorporated | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $3,200 |
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 (FY19–22, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
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Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…
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The mission of the PIC is to connect youth and adults of Boston ,with jobs and careers in the mainstream economy. The PIC brokers jobs and internships for public high school students oversees Bostons One Stop Career Centers and related job…
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Audacity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE KIDS & MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Caribbean Youth Club Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AUDACITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTRY AND SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MASS L E A P INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR PAN AFRICAN CULTURAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Wellington Management Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Horace A Moses 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
- Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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.