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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS$50,000
THE LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION$27,500
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$7,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO$7,500
IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS SERVICES$5,000
AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE$5,000
CHART-A$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAVOD: $6k → 12%KAVOD: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%ST ANNE'S: $1k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $200 → 14%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
NY
CA
NE
MD
DC
HI
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$766k · 18 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

$766k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +78%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +89%
  • C1
    CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • N
    NAACP
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -61%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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5
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
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
9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
11
California Western School of Law

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…

Education
12
The Bar Association of San Francisco

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE: $250,000 · OtherJULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTENAACP: $24,000 · OtherNAACP+23 more: $62,800 · Other+23 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $270,100 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUENAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $16,500 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC+3 more: $4,200 · Civil RightsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS: $160,050 · HealthNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR E…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $32,500 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION+2 more: $8,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · Human ServicesKAVOD: $8,250 · Human ServicesSt Anne's Family Services: $1,200 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,750 · Education826LA: $500 · EducationNew York University: $400 · EducationAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $5,000 · InternationalModeh Ani: $1,750 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $950 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalCHARLES W DIEHL JR TA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,800 · Philanthropy
Other$336,800Civil Rights$290,800Health$200,550Human Services$19,700Education$11,150International$8,950Philanthropy$7,800

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 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 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
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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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.

    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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