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The Moritz Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$537k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$655k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL$200,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTROPHY ADVISORS INC$85,000
EQUINE RESCUE INC$65,000
ST JOHN RESCUE INC$25,000
DOMINICA AMERICAN RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
ALL HAND AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE$25,000
TURKS AND CAICOS RELIEF FUND INC$25,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY$20,000
THERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TUCSON$20,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK$12,000
HUMANE EQUINE AID & RAPID TRANSPORT$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TUCSON: $20k → 15%ALL HAND AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE: $25k → 8%DOMINICA AMERICAN RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 6%DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL: $200k → 9%REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $12k → 14%EQUINE RESCUE INC: $65k → 16%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTROPHY ADVISORS INC: $85k → 17%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $20k → 6%HUMANE EQUINE AID & RAPID TRANSPORT: $10k → 11%TURKS AND CAICOS RELIEF FUND INC: $25k → 10%GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25k → 9%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 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
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals
2
Hope Reins

Hope reins' vision is to inspire true hope and real healing for every child. at our ranch, we pair children and teens experiencing trauma with a rescued horse and mentor to find hope and healing. the free-of-charge individual and group…

Health
3
Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc

Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation, Inc. (ERAF) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization devoted to the rescue, rehabilitation, retraining and adoption of abused, slaughter-bound, abandoned and neglected horses.

Animals
4
The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc

To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…

Animals
5
Animal Rescue Corps Inc

To end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. The Organization rescues animals who fall victim to abuse and natural disaster.

Animals
6
Reef Relief Inc

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem

Environment
7
Equine Rescue Association

The mission of equine rescue association is to bring horses and humans together in a mutual harmony and respect.

8
Horsesense for Special Riders Inc

Therapeutic horse riding for disabled

Human Services
9
Therapeutic & Recreational Riding Center Inc

To provide therapeutic horseback riding, serving a wide range of disabilities.

10
The Raptor Trust

The raptor trust is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned raptors in new jersey and beyond. we strive to educate the public about the vital role these magnificent birds play in our ecosystem,…

Animals
11
Days End Farm Horse Rescue Inc

To ensure quality care and treatment of horses through intervention, education and outreach.

Animals
12
New England Equine Rescue - North Inc

To rescue horses who are abused, neglected, or at-risk of slaughter.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Equine Aid & Rapid Transport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOLHUMANE EQUINE AID & RAPID TRANSPORT INC — $10,000 · EducationROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILA…ST JOHN RESCUE INC — $25,000 · OtherST JOHN RESCUE INCGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURC…GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY…Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc — $20,000 · OtherTherapeutic Riding of…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $12,000 · OtherREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF…EQUINE RESCUE INC — $65,000 · AnimalsEQUINE RESCUE…DOMINICA AMERICAN RELIEF & DEV ASSN — $25,000 · InternationalALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTURKS AND CAICOS REEF FUND INC — $25,000 · Environment
Education$210,000Philanthropy$85,000Other$102,000Animals$65,000International$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Environment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICA AMERICAN RELIEF & DEV ASSN — $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE EQUINE AID & RAPID TRANSPORT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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.

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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 Moritz 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Moritz Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Moritz 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 12 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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