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Moss Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.7MHuman Services$1.4MYouth Development$1.3MRecreation & Sports$712kHealth$700kPublic Safety & Disaster$401kPhilanthropy$382kHousing & Shelter$270kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $419k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$34,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUND$500,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIV$300,000
HANDY INC$264,000
LIVE THE LIFE SOUTH FLORIDA$200,000
NOVA SOUTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY$200,000
PLACE OF HOPE$200,000
4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA$150,000
ARC BROWARD$105,000
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION$100,000
STUDENT ACES INC$100,000
REYNA GROUP HOMES FOUNDATION$100,000
MIGHTY MEN FOUNDATION$100,000
STARTING RIGHT$75,000
HOCKEY DEVELOPMENT GROUP$65,000
POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOC$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WARRIOR SHIELD FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%ARC BROWARD INC: $360k → 13%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%HANDS AND FEET: $15k → 11%ARC BROWARD: $105k → 13%HEROES ON THE WATER: $20k → 5%ARC BROWARD INC: $50k → 13%ARC BROWARD INC: $40k → 13%FOUNDATION HERMANOS DE LA CALLE: $5k → 15%PLACE OF HOPE: $200k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $175k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $57k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $25k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $20k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $30k → 11%SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $25k → 13%SHERIDAN HOUSE: $25k → 13%HEART GALLERY OF BROWARD COUNTY: $50k → 13%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

NY
NV
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Moss Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 85%.

Moss Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 28 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
73

Total granted

$6.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AB
    ARC BROWARD INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $555k · revenue +29%
  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $477k · revenue +49%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $435k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • NS
    NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +33%
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
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
2
Leadership Broward Foundation Inc

Our mission is to develop and inspire individuals to serve our community. LBF promotes, develops and delivers leadership training programs that build community

Philanthropy
3
Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children

Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.

Crime & Legal
4
Florida College System Foundation

To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…

Education
5
Florida Youth Foundation Inc

To encourage the collaboration among business people, community members, parents, youths of florida, and the florida juvenile justice system to promote education and public safety through effective prevention, intervention, and treatment…

Crime & Legal
6
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
7
University of Miami
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8
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
9
Start Off Smart Inc

To effectively and efficiently guide individuals, children and families towards independence and safety and to improve the quality of life for the residents living and playing in the community using strong community collaboration.

Crime & Legal
10
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc

The mission of the harbor branch oceanographic institute foundation is to support the harbor branch oceanographic institute, a research institute of florida atlantic university. the harbor branch oceanographic institute foundation provides…

Science & Tech
11
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
12
The Florida Charter Educational Foundation Inc

The foundation provides high quality schools with an unwavering dedication to student achievement unyielding commitment to ethical and sound business practices providing a choice for communities, parents, students and professionals that…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Progress Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fish to Make a Difference Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 132 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
48/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIU FOUNDATION: $2,101,000 · OtherFIU FOUNDATIONHANDY INC: $806,900 · OtherHANDY INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUND: $500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUND4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $210,000 · Other+78 more: $1,940,775 · Other+78 moreNova Southeastern University Inc: $435,000 · EducationNova Southeastern …Student Aces Inc: $315,500 · EducationStudent Aces IncPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $315,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTI…RELATE WELL LIVE WELL INC: $200,000 · EducationRELATE WELL LIVE W…CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationCRISTO REY MIAMI H…+13 more: $228,000 · Education+13 moreARC BROWARD INC: $555,000 · Human ServicesARC BROWARD INCPLACE OF HOPE INC: $477,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE I…HEART GALLERY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human Services+8 more: $145,000 · Human Services+8 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyFraternal Order of Firefighters Inc: $30,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDO GOOD 41 INC: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION 300 INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $25,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARTIN COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGU: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsHOCKEY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsMARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsPompano Beach Golf League Inc: $42,165 · Recreation & SportsWOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsREYNA GROUP HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 · HealthFISH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC: $18,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · Health
Other$5,558,675Education$1,593,500Human Services$1,277,000Philanthropy$345,000Youth Development$297,500Recreation & Sports$247,165Health$213,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARC BROWARD INC: $555,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $477,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $435,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Aces Inc: $315,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $315,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRELATE WELL LIVE WELL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetREYNA GROUP HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEVERY MOTHER'S ADVOCATE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGU: $80,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTREES OF HOPEORG INC: $75,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHOCKEY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $65,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSHILOH PLACE MCKINNEY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPompano Beach Golf League Inc: $42,165 over 1y, 49% of budgetBROWARD SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE SCHOOLS SAFE INC DBA MAKE OUR SCHOOLS SAFE: $35,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetDO GOOD 41 INC: $34,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOACH DAVIS CAMPS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIDAN HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION OUTREACH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES FLORIDAINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHEROES ON THE WATER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFISH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 22% 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.

The Batchelor Foundat…Community Foundation …The Jim Moran Foundat…Florida Panthers Foun…Publix Super Markets …Community Foundation …The Frederick a Deluc…Bbx Capital Foundatio…Quantum Foundation IncBlue Cross Blue Shiel…The Amaturo Family Fo…Helios Education Foun…
The Batchelor Foundation IncFL31.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Amaturo Family Foundation · Helios Education 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 320%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ann Storck Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Fundacion Hermanos De La Calle Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
32get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 132 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home