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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Ecotrust$150,000
UC San Diego Foundation$150,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
Oceanic Society$125,000
Community Services Agency$125,000
Vanderbilt University$100,000
Vanderbilt University$100,000
Exploratorium$100,000
Island Conservation$100,000
CuriOdyssey$100,000
Amazon Conservation Team$80,000
Point Blue Conservation Science$75,000
EARTH University Foundation$75,000
The Leatherback Trust$75,000
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:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of Moore Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Moore Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

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

+38%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Conservation; 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.
05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SILICON VA: $150,000 · OtherSEACOLOGY: $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 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 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 budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $310,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $310,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCURIODYSSEY: $300,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetVanderbilt University: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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 budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetIDEA WILD INC: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSEACOLOGY: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSEPSIS ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBaykeeper: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB: $45,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA WATCH: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHeyday: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home