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Moore Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2021
47
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Moore Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Moore Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

32
’20
33
’21
26
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Philanthropy$70MEnvironment$3.9MEducation$1.3MScience & Tech$810kAnimals$645kHuman Services$450kArts & Culture$310kRecreation & Sports$240kOther$0
02FY2021 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Riekes Center$200,000
UC San Diego Foundation$150,000
Ecotrust$150,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
Oceanic Society$125,000
Community Services Agency$125,000
Island Conservation$100,000
CuriOdyssey$100,000
Exploratorium$100,000
Vanderbilt University$100,000
Vanderbilt University$100,000
Amazon Conservation Team$80,000
Point Blue Conservation Science$75,000
Conservation International$75,000
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE$75,000
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 (FY20–22, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Parents Helping Parents: $20k → 8%Community Services Agency: $125k → 8%Community Services Agency: $125k → 8%Community Services Agency: $125k → 8%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
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of Moore Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Moore Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.5M · 38 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
3

Total granted

$7.5M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechAnimalsOther

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

  • OS
    Oceanic Society Expeditions
    3× · 2020–2022 · $575k · revenue +66%
  • ECOTRUST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $550k · revenue +20%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $400k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MS
    Marine Science Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +177%
  • WC
    WADDELL CREEK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -6%
  • PH
    PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +31%

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
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
2
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
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
5
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
6
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
7
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech
10
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
11
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
12
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Conservation and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%47%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%4%20–35yr16%94%35–55yr20%2%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,266

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.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $69,836,207 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDOceanic Society Expeditions — $575,000 · OtherECOTRUST — $550,000 · OtherThe Leatherback Trust — $350,000 · OtherOsa Conservation — $190,000 · OtherSEACOLOGY — $150,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SILICON VA — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $250,000 · OtherEARTH University Foundation Inc — $200,000 · OtherSEPSIS ALLIANCE INC — $125,000 · Other+12 more — $680,000 · OtherCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $375,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATION — $350,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $225,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $200,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $150,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeper — $100,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC — $70,000 · Environment+1 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $250,000 · EducationRiekes Center for Human Enhancement — $240,000 · EducationMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB — $45,000 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $310,000 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $310,000 · Science & TechIDEA WILD INC — $150,000 · Science & TechCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $375,000 · Human ServicesPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $20,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$69,836,207Other$3,470,000Environment$1,645,000Education$1,190,000Arts & Culture$970,000Science & Tech$460,000Human Services$395,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $69,836,207 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions — $575,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetECOTRUST — $550,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $375,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $350,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $310,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $310,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $300,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVanderbilt University — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiekes Center for Human Enhancement — $240,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH University Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $200,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEACOLOGY — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetIDEA WILD INC — $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSEPSIS ALLIANCE INC — $125,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBaykeeper — $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE — $90,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB — $45,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA WATCH — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHeyday — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Gordon E and Betty I …Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The David and Lucile …Texas Instruments Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationAbbVie FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Bright Funds Foundati…Jewish Community Fede…
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Moore 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 · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Moore Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moore Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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