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The Moore Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Health$39kArts & Culture$19kYouth Development$13kReligion$6kCivil Rights$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kAnimals$500Environment$500
02FY2018 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$649k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$21,600
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSB$5,500
GRAND VISION FOUNDATION$3,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBO$3,000
SWITZER LEANING CENTER$3,000
TORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION$1,000
BEACON HOUSE$500
SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN$500
OVATION SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OVATION SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS: $500 → 14%INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE: $500 → 14%OVATION SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS: $500 → 14%CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSB: $6k → 14%CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSB: $5k → 14%PENINSULA COMMITTEE LA PHILHARMONIC: $560 → 14%SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN: $500 → 14%PROVIDENCE LITTLE CO OF MARY: $6k → 14%TORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBO: $10k → 14%GRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBO: $3k → 14%GRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%HOLLYWOOD HUSKIES: $500 → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $22k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $7k → 14%PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $10k → 14%SWITZER LEANING CENTER: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60k · 5 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +123% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$60k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+35%

Still filing today

40%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther

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

  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $29k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k
  • CO
    CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSB
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k

Funded once

  • PT
    PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • PL
    PROVIDENCE LITTLE CO OF MARY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • PC
    PENINSULA COMMITTEE LA PHILHARMONIC
    one grant, 2017 · $560

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
2
San Carlos Childrens Theater

San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts

Arts & Culture
3
San Diego Theatres Inc

San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…

Arts & Culture
4
Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre Corp

Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.

Arts & Culture
5
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
6
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc

To provide a vibrant performing arts center that generates and promotes excellence in the performing arts and enhances the quality of life in the region by offering outstanding and diverse entertainment, including events of cultural and…

Arts & Culture
7
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
8
San Diego Junior Theatre

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…

9
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
10
Hollywood Heritage

The mission of hollywood heritage is to preserve, protect and promote the history, architecture and artifacts of hollywood, california

Arts & Culture
11
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

See schedule otmc champions the arts in los angeles for all people. tmc connects the people of los angeles with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. tmc embraces patrons, visitors and community members from all…

Arts & Culture
12
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Switzer Learning Center and the most unlike its peers is Hollywood Huskies. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY — $28,800 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBO — $13,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBOCHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSB — $10,700 · OtherCHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SOUTH BAY-COSBPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $10,000 · OtherPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORKPROVIDENCE LITTLE CO OF MARY — $5,700 · OtherPROVIDENCE LITTLE CO OF MARYSWITZER LEARNING CENTER — $3,000 · Other+3 more — $1,560 · OtherGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $6,000 · PhilanthropyOVATION SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE — $500 · Arts & CultureTORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOLLYWOOD HUSKIES — $500 · AnimalsSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Environment
Other$72,760Philanthropy$6,000Arts & Culture$1,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Animals$500Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSWITZER LEARNING CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOVATION SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLYWOOD HUSKIES — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · Marcil Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Moore Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Moore Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Moore 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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