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Moss Adams 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$391k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$3.6MPhilanthropy$3.4MYouth Development$314kPublic Safety & Disaster$181kCivil Rights$154kEnvironment$143kMembership Benefit$126kInternational$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $391k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$390,783
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$150,050
OCEAN BLUE PROJECT$50,000
WILD FARM ALLIANCE$35,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$35,000
CALIFORNIA POLYTECH STATE UNIVERSITY$33,334
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE$28,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON$25,000
THE PHD PROJECT ASSOCIATION$25,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO$20,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
EVERYBODY SOLAR$15,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$12,725
ANDERSON MUNGER FAMILY YMCA$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 10%SAFE HOUSE: $3k → 13%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

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ID
MT
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MI
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NV
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
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CO
MO
VA
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DE
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NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 83 repeat orgs$939k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
182

Total granted

$4.1M
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

41%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +42%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $119k · revenue +182%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • XS
    XERCES SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHICO
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $35k

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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
7
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
12
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Lucstrong Foundation. 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 backsteadyYouth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Community Foundations
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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%44%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,458

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.

04the grantee network

97 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 314 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
66/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated — $442,995 · OtherCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Associat…BETA ALPHA PSI — $266,173 · OtherBETA ALPHA PSIWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY — $248,550 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE — $198,980 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGECALIFORNIA POLYTECH STATE UNIVERSITY — $147,776 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $147,500 · OtherPROJECT RUN WITH IT — $123,165 · Other+145 more — $2,097,196 · Other+145 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,293,277 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,054,388 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION+2 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $151,640 · EducationCORPORATION …UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $119,403 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $99,950 · EducationPRESIDENT-BO…WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $90,463 · EducationWHITWORTH UN…FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $64,885 · EducationFOUNDATION F…Oregon State University Foundation — $55,000 · EducationOregon State…UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $36,996 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $33,800 · Education+24 more — $281,567 · Education+24 moreTHE PHD PROJECT ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $60,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION — $14,010 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE LUCSTRONG FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 · HealthEmpower Youth Network — $10,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $52,500 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECT — $10,000 · International
Other$3,672,335Philanthropy$3,367,665Education$933,704Civil Rights$150,000Human Services$72,500Health$64,010International$62,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,293,277 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,054,388 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated — $442,995 over 4y, 18% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $151,640 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHD PROJECT ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $119,403 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $99,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $90,463 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $64,885 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $52,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $36,996 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWild Farm Alliance — $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $33,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $30,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $27,045 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $22,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACCOUNTING CAREER AWARENESS PROGRAM — $21,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION — $14,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University — $11,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetA CONTINUOUS CHARITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Helpline — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Youth Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE PHD PROJECT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
  • Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON
  • Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Wild Farm Alliance
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION

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.

Credit Unions in the State of WashingtonWA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Pemco Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Deloitte Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc

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 Moss Adams 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
202122232425
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Xerces Society Inc22% of income from government
  • McKenzie River Trust8% of income from government
  • Linfield University4% of income from government
  • George Fox University2% of income from government
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc2% of income from government
  • University of Portland1% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon University Foundation0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Moss Adams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moss Adams 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 314 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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