· Private foundation
Moderna Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Moderna Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $4,645,586 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $50,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC | $50,000 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $32,015 |
| CHARITABLE GIVING | $6,731 |
| CANADIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $4,479 |
| THE TRUSTEE FOR THE AUSTRALIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $1,419 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 68% of Moderna Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $648k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +3%
- CGCHARITABLE GIVING3× · 2022–2025 · $28k
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -4%
- HHHEADING HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +179%
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -24%
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.
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.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
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Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Moderna Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moderna Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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