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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.

$123k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Moss Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesMembership BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$123k43%
FY20247$64k71%
FY20232$1k100%
FY202116$146k44%
FY20209$135k33%
FY201913$131k31%
FY201814$131k50%
FY201714$139kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$436kCivil Rights$312kHousing & Shelter$36kEducation$20kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$13kCrime & Legal$9kInternational$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
NE
MD
DC
HI
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($317k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Moss Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnti-Defamation League: $270,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias: $160,050 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetLucky Duck Foundation: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Diego: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKavod: $8,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUc Santa Cruz Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChp 11-99 Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMothers2mothers United States Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharles W Diehl Jr Ta: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVenice Family Clinic: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Defender Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Institute of the Arts: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game LA: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Project for the Homeless: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVassar College: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826la: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Resolve: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Village Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaving Innocence Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Moss Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moss 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.

About Moss Family Foundation

How much does Moss Family Foundation give?
Moss Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Moss Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Civil Rights (36%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Moss Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($270k), National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias ($160k), Lucky Duck Foundation ($33k).
Does Moss Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Moss Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Moss Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is Moss Family Foundation based?
Moss Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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