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John J Moller Family Foundation

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.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$414kEducation$104kYouth Development$78kHealth$55kArts & Culture$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kInternational$25kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAINFOREST TRUST$34,320
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION$28,600
CRANE SCHOOL$15,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$10,000
LIGHT THE WORLD INC$6,800
OUR RESCUE$6,800
SAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION$5,720
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$5,720
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$5,720
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT INCORPORATED$5,720
POLESTAR LIFETIME LEARNING FOUNDATION INC$5,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC$4,500
MESA INDEPENDENT LIVING$1,500
THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY$1,500
DIGNITYMOVES$1,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHELTER BOX USA: $4k → 10%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $4k → 10%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $3k → 10%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $3k → 10%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $2k → 14%MESA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 10%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $1k → 10%GREATER GOODS OJAI: $1k → 10%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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
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GA
FL

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 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$486k · 19 repeat orgs$372k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
56

Total granted

$486k
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+22%

Still filing today

95%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +54%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +377%
  • CC
    CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TI
    TREEPEOPLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $37k · revenue +150%
  • BD
    BEST DAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CL
    CAPITAL LINK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
The Ocean Foundation

As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…

Environment
6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
7
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
8
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
9
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
12
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Wildtorium. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Jewish Community Organizati…Developmental Disabilities …Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%22%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,894

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

78 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. 78 of the 90 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
54/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $94,100 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOU…BEST DAY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherBEST DAY FOUNDATIONCAPITAL LINK INC — $25,000 · OtherCAPITAL LINK INCFOOD FORWARD INC — $16,667 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $13,750 · Other+34 more — $133,029 · Other+34 moreTREEPEOPLE INC — $36,734 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INCLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $19,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES FORESTWAT…VENTURA LAND TRUST — $16,491 · EnvironmentVENTURA LAND TRUSTTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $13,500 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND…THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $13,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDA…HEAL THE OCEAN INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INCKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $8,500 · EnvironmentKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDAT…OCEANIC GLOBAL FOUNDATION CORP — $6,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,720 · Environment+12 more — $29,417 · Environment+12 moreRAINFOREST TRUST — $115,984 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE SONDER PROJECT INC — $5,000 · International+4 more — $7,417 · International+4 moreCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $40,500 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY…KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $24,000 · EducationKRISHNAMURTI …OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL — $13,327 · EducationOJAI VALLEY S…MONICA ROS SCHOOL INC — $8,500 · EducationMONICA ROS SC…PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationOAK GROVE SCHOOL LLC — $4,000 · Education+3 more — $4,500 · EducationConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers — $37,142 · Youth DevelopmentConcerned …BEST DAY FOUNDATION — $34,808 · Youth DevelopmentBEST DAY F…Wilderness Youth Project Inc — $5,720 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness…GREATER GOODS OJAI — $11,000 · Human ServicesRAIN COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMES — $10,000 · Human ServicesSECURE BEGINNINGS — $9,500 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC — $8,750 · Human Services+2 more — $3,167 · Human ServicesOPERATION OPEN WATER — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPHOENIX BREAD RISING — $8,625 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $8,502 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,875 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$312,546Environment$158,862International$133,401Education$99,827Youth Development$77,670Human Services$52,417Public Safety & Disaster$29,002

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $115,984 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $94,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $40,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers — $37,142 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $36,734 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEST DAY FOUNDATION — $34,808 over 2y, 14% of budgetCAPITAL LINK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $19,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA LAND TRUST — $16,491 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $13,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL — $13,327 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GOODS OJAI — $11,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HOMES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECURE BEGINNINGS — $9,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX BREAD RISING — $8,625 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $8,502 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONICA ROS SCHOOL INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANIC GLOBAL FOUNDATION CORP — $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION — $5,720 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $5,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SONDER PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $4,664 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $4,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,991 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $3,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRic OBarrys Dolphin Project — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER WELLS FOR AFRICA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Life You Can Save — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Marin Community Found…PatagoniaorgPatricia Bragg Founda…Ventura County Commun…2005 Tomchin Family C…The Turpin-Allebrand …The B & B FoundationJames S Bower Foundat…Manitou FundBruce and Marilyn Wal…Monimos Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA39.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ventura County Community Foundation · 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · The B & B Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Manitou Fund · Bruce and Marilyn Wallace Foundation · Monimos 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 John J Moller Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Capital Link Inc — 18% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 90 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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