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Joan Parkos Moran Family Foundation at a glance

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Joan Parkos Moran Family 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$77kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$24kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FUND$10,000
A SAFE PLACE$5,000
HORIZONS INC$5,000
JUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION$5,000
SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION$2,500
FIND THE CURE BREAST CANCER FNDT$1,500
KRAVIS CENTER$1,000
LOOKING UPWARDS$500
GRODEN NETWORK$500
SAIL TO PREVAIL$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOOKING UPWARDS INC: $500 → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $500 → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS INC: $500 → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 17 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$152k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

71%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +122%
  • NC
    NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +8%
  • AS
    A SAFE PLACE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +658%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +79%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • NG
    NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +174%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nantucket Ice Company Inc

To promote a safe and healthy recreational environment where nantucket children, adults, and families can gather to enjoy the sport of ice-skating

Recreation & Sports
2
Refocus Inc

Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…

Health
3
The Arc of Bristol County Inc

To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…

—
4
Nantucket Community Sailing Inc

To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.

Recreation & Sports
5
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development
6
Nantucket Partnership for Children Inc

Nantucket new school is an independent day school serving students in pre-school through grade eight and strong wings is an outdoor adventure school.

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7
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health
8
The Cove Center Inc

To provide day and residential programs for treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities to clients within the rhode island area.

Human Services
9
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
10
Nantucket Atheneum Inc

The nantucket atheneum, a private non-profit organization provides public library service to the island's year-round and seasonal residents, housed in a historic 1847 building and the weezie library for children. the atheneum collects,…

—
11
Places and Programs for Children Inc

By providing places and programs, children's harbor is the model for comprehensive services for children.

—
12
Nantucket Arts Council Inc

Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Looking Upwards Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ronald Mcdonald House of Providence Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $20,500 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · OtherSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INCA SAFE PLACE INC: $13,000 · OtherA SAFE PLACE INCLASALLE ACADEMY: $12,000 · OtherLASALLE ACADEMYNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCJUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherJUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATIONMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LINCOLN SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherJOHN E MORAN FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Other+12 more: $17,975 · Other+12 moreHORIZONS INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsHORIZONS INCNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $500 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · PhilanthropyTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $3,000 · EducationNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $500 · EducationRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,900 · Arts & CultureHOPE CLUB PRESERVATION FUND: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL TO PREVAIL: $2,500 · HealthLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$112,475Recreation & Sports$37,500Environment$13,500Philanthropy$3,800Education$3,500Arts & Culture$2,900Health$2,500Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHORIZONS INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN E MORAN AND GERALD P VENTRE FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GRODEN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF BLACKSTONE VALLEY: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CLUB PRESERVATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

United Way of Rhode I…The Rhode Island Comm…The Goldman Sachs Cha…John D & K a Johnston…Hackett Family Founda…Amica Companies Found…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…
United Way of Rhode Island IncRI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · John D & K a Johnston Foundation · Hackett Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan Parkos Moran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan Parkos Moran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Joan Parkos Moran Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joan Parkos Moran Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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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