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Moore Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$439k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

International$225kReligion$184kEducation$35kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$15kYouth Development$12kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k10 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
$8,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD$180,000
GRACE CHURCH$100,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
FLORIDA BAPTIST CONVENTION$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
U S GLOBAL$15,000
WEST AL FOOD BANK$10,000
SAV-A-LIFE$10,000
THE NAVIGATORS$8,000
MOORE ACTIVITY CENTER$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,250
FILTER OF HOPE$5,000
RISE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
YFC$3,000
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 (FY17–18, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAV-A-LIFE: $10k → 16%EDUCARE: $3k → 17%EDUCARE: $2k → 17%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%YMCA: $10k → 17%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

IL
IN
PA
NJ
CO
KY
VA
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 38% of Moore Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Moore Foundation Inclessmore 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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 4 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$33k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-48%
+42%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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

  • WA
    WEST AL FOOD BANK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k
  • EI
    Educare Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue -48%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • AB
    ALABAMA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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2
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
3
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
4
Puzzle Piece Ministries

To deliver the message of Jesus

Religion
5
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
6
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
7
Joyful Korean Community Church

The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…

Religion
8
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
9
Praise Broadcasting Inc

Praise broadcasting's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experiencing jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where…

Religion
10
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
11
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
12
Chosen Ministries
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filter of Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: $180,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTIONGRACE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherGRACE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFLORIDA BAPTIST CONVENTION: $25,000 · OtherFLORIDA BAPTIST CONVENTIONWEST AL FOOD BANK: $15,000 · OtherUB GLOBAL: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $71,150 · Other+14 moreYMCA: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAV-A-LIFE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEducare Inc: $4,700 · Human ServicesCARING DAYS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 · ReligionMOORE ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $5,000 · Education
Other$441,150Human Services$25,700Religion$25,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAV-A-LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducare Inc: $4,700 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCARING DAYS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds YMCA ↗
  • Who funds SAV-A-LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOORE ACTIVITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Educare Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARING DAYS INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moore Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 28 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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