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Moon 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$24kReligion$13kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$4kAnimals$3kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAVINIA$7,500
CHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
CASAS FOR KIDS FUND$3,315
CHILDREN'S THEATER OF WINNETKA$3,000
THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$1,500
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
FLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION$1,000
TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 211$1,000
EQUUS FOUNDATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $1k → 7%DIRECT RELIEF: $300 → 14%ASPCA: $350 → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $500 → 14%EQUUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HIGHLAND KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%SHEDD ACQUARIUM: $5k → 14%CASAS FOR KIDS FUND: $3k → 20%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US: $500 → 14%RAVINIA: $8k → 8%CHILDREN'S THEATER OF WINNETKA: $3k → 14%RAVINIA: $8k → 8%THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $3k → 14%THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $2k → 14%826CHI: $1k → 14%THE SALVATION ARMY OF EVANSTON: $350 → 14%FLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION: $1k → 14%TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 211: $1k → 14%CHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 14%CHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 14%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 4 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

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

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$35k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
0%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • R
    RAVINIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
  • CJ
    CHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HK
    HIGHLAND KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +7%
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
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
5
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
6
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
9
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
10
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
11
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
12
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAVINIA: $15,000 · OtherRAVINIACHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherCHICAGO JOYFUL COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCASAS FOR KIDS FUND: $3,315 · OtherCASAS FOR KIDS FUNDCHILDREN'S THEATER OF WINNETKA: $3,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S THEATER OF WINNETKAHIGHLAND KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherHIGHLAND KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+2 more: $1,350 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $4,500 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORT…FLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentFLINT CREEK …WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $5,600 · Arts & CultureChicago Sym…EQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $350 · AnimalsFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $300 · International826CHI INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$40,665Environment$6,000Arts & Culture$5,600Animals$1,850International$1,300Education$1,000

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 budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826CHI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $300 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Moon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moon Family Foundation. 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 →
    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.

    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 18 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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