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Moeller 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.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$566kCrime & Legal$64kHealth$62kHousing & Shelter$49kInternational$46kReligion$37kCivil Rights$21kAnimals$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$8,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
10000 DEGREES$26,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND$22,000
WBUR$12,500
Individual grant recipient$8,500
LIVING WATER CHILDREN'S FUND$8,500
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE$8,500
LANDSPATH$7,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$7,500
HEADSUP SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$6,500
CANAL ALLIANCE$6,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ROSIE'S PLACE: $10k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $64k → 8%LANDSPATH: $8k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11k → 17%AGE AFRICA: $16k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $8k → 12%ROSIE'S PLACE: $10k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $62k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11k → 17%AGE AFTICA: $10k → 14%ROSIE'S PLACE: $8k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $60k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%AGE AFRICA: $10k → 14%10000 DEGREES: $51k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $9k → 17%AGE AFRICA: $9k → 14%10000 DEGREES: $44k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $8k → 17%WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE: $9k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $33k → 8%WBUR: $13k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $31k → 8%AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE: $11k → 14%WBUR: $13k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $26k → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $8k → 17%AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE: $10k → 14%WBUR: $13k → 16%10000 DEGREES: $26k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $8k → 14%WBUR: $12k → 16%HEADSUP SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WBUR: $12k → 16%HEADSUP SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%WBUR: $11k → 16%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $11k → 17%WBUR: $10k → 16%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $10k → 17%WBUR: $10k → 16%LIVING WATER CHILDREN'S FUND: $9k → 17%WBUR: $10k → 16%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $10k → 17%STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER: $12k → 16%THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10k → 8%STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 16%CANAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%CANAL ALLIANCE: $8k → 8%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$910k · 16 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$910k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
-18%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
EducationHealthCrime & LegalAnimalsHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +175%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +45%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -21%
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
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
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
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
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is LandPaths. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

10000 DEGREES: $397,000 · Education10000 DEGREESTeach for America Inc: $16,000 · Education+1 more: $13,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $103,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYSan Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP: $37,000 · OtherSan Rafael Public Education Foundat…Individual grant recipient: $34,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $21,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USASTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER: $18,000 · OtherSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTE…AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $21,000 · OtherAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF …THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $32,000 · Other+4 moreAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $39,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $8,000 · HealthEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $64,000 · Crime & LegalROSIE'S PLACE INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCANAL ALLIANCE: $37,000 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · International
Education$426,000Other$298,500Health$69,500Crime & Legal$64,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Religion$37,000International$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget10000 DEGREES: $397,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $103,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $64,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $39,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSan Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP: $37,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $13,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandPaths: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Moeller Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Moeller Foundation Inc 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 22 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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