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The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization)
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.
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51% of The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization)’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization) named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $243k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION | $1,425,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $757,511 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES VISION CE | $250,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| KENDALL COLLEGE OF ARTDESIGN | $58,711 |
| BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $57,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $52,680 |
| NC STATE UNIVERSITY | $40,604 |
| INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES | $30,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $24,623 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($19M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($3.9M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($3.9M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 45% of The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2018, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +27%
- NYNew York University3× · 2018–2025 · $343k · revenue +59%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES2× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +29% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- MSMississippi State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +153%
- SASHANGHAI AMERICAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER ALLY ↗
- Who funds WORLD EYE CANCER HOPE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Larry & Celia Moh Foundation (A North Carolina Exempt Organization). Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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