How much does Moss Foundation give?

Moss Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Moss Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (8%).

Who are Moss Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Careforce ($300k), People for the American Way ($200k), Inner City Law Center ($200k).

Does Moss Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Moss 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 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is Moss Foundation based?

Moss Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Moss Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2024: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 95; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $6k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Moss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	1	$10M	0%
FY2023	2	$1.3M	0%
FY2022	4	$237k	0%
FY2021	5	$282k	40%
FY2020	20	$2.2M	10%
FY2019	74	$1.9M	18%
FY2018	76	$1.7M	11%
FY2017	95	$3.5M	n/a

95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MEducation$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MHealth$1.0MCommunity Improvement$495kCivil Rights$432kYouth Development$250kCrime & Legal$220kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Careforce	$300,000	4	21%
People for the American Way	$200,000	4	1%
Inner City Law Center	$200,000	4	1%
Leadership Foundations	$162,500	3	3%
Ps Arts	$150,000	3	1%
Geffen Playhouse Inc	$130,000	6	0%
Education Through Music Inc	$130,000	3	1%
Southern California Grantmakers	$111,000	3	1%
The Painted Turtle	$100,000	3	1%
Spirit Series Inc	$100,000	3	6%

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All grantees of Moss Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Careforce	$300,000	4	21%
People for the American Way	$200,000	4	1%
Inner City Law Center	$200,000	4	1%
Leadership Foundations	$162,500	3	3%
Ps Arts	$150,000	3	1%
Geffen Playhouse Inc	$130,000	6	0%
Education Through Music Inc	$130,000	3	1%
Southern California Grantmakers	$111,000	3	1%
The Painted Turtle	$100,000	3	1%
Spirit Series Inc	$100,000	3	6%
Oakland School for the Arts	$75,000	3	0%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc	$75,000	3	0%
Inner-City Arts	$75,000	3	1%
Casa of Los Angeles	$75,000	3	1%
The Rainforest Fund Inc	$75,000	3	11%
Tree Academy	$75,000	3	2%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation	$75,000	3	2%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$65,000	3	0%
New Directions Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Southern California Public Radio	$60,000	3	0%
Young Eisner Scholars	$50,000	1	3%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Exceptional Children's Foundation	$45,000	3	0%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$35,000	3	0%
Venice Family Clinic	$32,500	4	0%
Los Angeles Mission Inc	$30,000	3	n/a
Children of the Night	$30,000	3	1%
Lupus la Co Emerge	$30,000	3	n/a
Maui Food Bank Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Concern Foundation	$30,000	5	0%
Tibet Fund Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Black Business Association of La	$27,500	2	n/a
Angels at Risk	$25,000	3	5%
Coalition for Engaged Education	$25,000	1	2%
Oceana Inc	$22,500	2	0%
A Window Between Worlds	$20,000	2	1%
The Rape Foundation	$20,000	4	0%
National Breast Cancer Coalition	$20,000	2	3%
Edwin J Gregson Foundation	$19,000	3	2%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc	$16,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$15,000	3	0%
Old Friends Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services	$15,000	2	0%
Vetsaid Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	$10,000	1	0%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$10,000	3	0%
Musicares Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Intl Society for the Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest	$10,000	1	n/a
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Tj Martell Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Children's Diabetes Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc	$9,000	3	0%
Beverly Hills Youth Football Association	$8,300	1	n/a
Anti-Defamation League	$7,500	3	0%
United Friends of the Children	$7,500	3	0%
Los Angeles Conservancy	$7,500	2	0%
Truthout	$7,500	2	0%
National Museum of Racing Inc	$6,000	3	0%
The Barack Obama Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$5,000	3	0%
Bring on the Music Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Joyful Heart Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
La Goal	$5,000	2	0%
Treepeople Inc	$4,500	3	0%
Exploring the Arts Inc	$4,000	1	0%
The Carter Center Inc	$3,000	3	0%
Bread & Roses Presents	$3,000	3	0%
The American Hospital of Paris Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
Christopher Reeve Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
The Salvation Army	$3,000	3	n/a
Race to Erase Ms	$2,500	1	0%
Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation	$2,000	2	0%
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated	$2,000	2	0%
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Long Shadows Charitable Foundation	$1,500	1	n/a
Thoroughbred Rehab Center Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness	$1,000	1	0%
The Farrah Fawcett Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Winners Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Metropolitan Museum of Art	$600	1	0%
The Healing Place Inc	$500	1	0%
Los Angeles Police Foundation	$500	1	0%

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.

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

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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 75.

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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 FoundationCA33.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · The Green Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Herb Alpert Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons 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.

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About Moss Foundation

How much does Moss Foundation give?: Moss Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Moss Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Moss Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Careforce ($300k), People for the American Way ($200k), Inner City Law Center ($200k).
Does Moss Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Moss 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 Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Moss Foundation based?: Moss Foundation is based in CA.