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Moss Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS | $50,000 |
| THE LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO | $7,500 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE | $5,000 |
| CHART-A | $5,000 |
| IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BROOKLYN DEFENDERS SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| HOLLYWOOD SCHOOLHOUSE FUND | $2,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +78%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS7× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +89%
- C1CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- NNAACPone grant, 2020 · $24k
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -61%- UJUNITED JEWISH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve and the most unlike its peers is Charles W Diehl Jr Ta. 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.
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W DIEHL JR TA ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds African Mission Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Modeh Ani ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds Ground Game LA ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 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.
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.
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