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Moonlight Inspiration Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2026
4
Organizations funded FY2025
50%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
5
Total assets, FY2026
$615k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 50% of the organizations Moonlight Inspiration Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving4$4k50%
FY20254$2k50%
FY20244$3k50%
FY20234$2k75%
FY20223$2k100%
FY20212$160100%
FY20201$51n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Health$6kReligion$3kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$500Recreation & Sports$60

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
TN
HI
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$3,0002n/a
New Jersey Institute for Disabilities Inc$8001n/a
The Salvation Army$5001n/a
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc$50010%
New Orleans Museum of Art$3001n/a
Gofundmeorg$5110%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

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About Moonlight Inspiration Foundation

How much does Moonlight Inspiration Foundation give?
Moonlight Inspiration Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,100 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does Moonlight Inspiration Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (36%), Religion (20%), Environment (19%).
Who are Moonlight Inspiration Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($3k), New Jersey Institute for Disabilities Inc ($800), The Salvation Army ($500).
Does Moonlight Inspiration Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Moonlight Inspiration Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Moonlight Inspiration Foundation based?
Moonlight Inspiration Foundation is based in CA.

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 16 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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