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The Moran Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $128,539 |
| MAGIS INSTITUTE | $127,047 |
| LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $64,496 |
| HAITI180 | $50,000 |
| STTHOMAS AQUINAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF CLEAR CREEK ABBEY | $50,000 |
| RUTH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $35,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $25,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $25,000 |
| THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $20,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN RE-ENTRY MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| RELEVANT RADIO | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- SCSpitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +68%
- LLLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +60%
- LALIVE ACTION9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +410%
Funded once
- STSAINT THOMAS AQUINAS HOUSE OF DISCERNMENTone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -63%
- SAST AUGUSTINE HOMESCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $6k
- WRWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Amnion's mission is to share the gospel of jesus christ and to protect and advocate for the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn, through the provision of abortion alternative services that empower mothers to choose life.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To educate the public about abortion
Pregnancy resource center (prc) exists to prevent abortions and provide eternal truth through evidence based medical services and the gospel of jesus christ.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Life Dynamics Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 112 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 Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute ↗
- Who funds POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE HOPE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI180 INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds John Paul The Great Catholic University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JM EDUCATIONAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IMAGE TRINITY ↗
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: G L Connolly Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Mercy Works Foundation · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · Richard L Boland Love for Life Foundation Inc · Cousineau Family Charity · The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Mary's Foundation · The Turicchi Family Foundation · Seidler Family 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 Moran 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 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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