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Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,786
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,680
Organizations funded a year
17 to 32
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$97k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationSocial ScienceReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$24k83%
FY202317$24k41%
FY202227$18k33%
FY202127$32k41%
FY202032$13k66%
FY201823$13kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$26kPhilanthropy$19kEducation$16kArts & Culture$14kHealth$8kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$4kCivil Rights$690Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Shore Congregation Israel$20,4653n/a
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$18,40040%
The Art Center of Highland Park$6,35050%
Congregation Bnai Tikvah$4,2703n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$4,00010%
Ravinia Festival Association$3,12560%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$2,18050%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$1,02030%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$90010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$85530%
Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $18,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Center of Highland Park: $6,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $3,125 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $2,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $1,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $576 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaot Chitim of Greater Chicago Inc: $303 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Historic Genealogical Society: $245 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSefaria Inc: $216 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Power Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLungevity Foundation Inc: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Chicago: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Selfhelp Home Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Netherland Institute: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Newberry Library: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Little Baby Face Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation

How much does Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation give?
Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $23,666 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Philanthropy (19%), Education (16%).
Who are Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: North Shore Congregation Israel ($20k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($18k), The Art Center of Highland Park ($6k).
Does Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation based?
Joan F and Michael F Moriarty Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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