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The Carol 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $326k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $1,000,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION | $220,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC | $200,000 |
| FENCES FOR FIDO | $150,000 |
| FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS | $150,000 |
| STRAY CAT ALLIANCE | $130,000 |
| PUPPY RESCUE MISSION | $130,000 |
| FOOD FINDERS INC | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC | $100,000 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE | $100,000 |
| ANGEL CITY PIT BULLS | $90,000 |
| KITTEN RESCUE | $80,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $70,000 |
| JVS SOCAL | $65,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +55%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $677k · revenue +86%- FPFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS5× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- SFSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $135k · revenue +43%
- HSHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -5%
- SISPCA INTERNATIONAL-OPERATION BAGHDAone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Providing shelter for domestic animals, through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and sanctuary and act as an advocate for the humane treatment of animals. to educate the public regarding the responsibilities of pet ownership, as well as…
To rescue and rehabilitate dogs and cats and place them in forever homes.
Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…
Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 129 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUPPY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL CITY PIT BULLS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Downtown Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds FENCES FOR FIDO ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ELITE ATHLETE SERVICES LLC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAPA COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM ↗
- Who funds Carson Cats Rescue ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CERRO GORDO ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTPRINT PROJECT ↗
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: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Greater Good Charities · California Community Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Laffintr of John & Maria Tuw Main · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation
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 The Carol Moss 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.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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