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The Mosow Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Human Services$40kEducation$22kReligion$19kYouth Development$5kHealth$1kArts & Culture$500Philanthropy$500Civil Rights$400Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$38,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Big Oak Ranch$38,800
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Big Oak Ranch: $39k → 18%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
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Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
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Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
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Biblica Inc

To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.

Religion
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John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
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Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

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Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
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Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
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University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
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Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mobile and the most unlike its peers is Save-a-Life Inc. 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

17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 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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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cochise College — $17,500 · OtherCochise CollegeMissionary Tech — $9,000 · OtherMissionary TechMission Aviation — $5,000 · OtherMission AviationInternational Gospel Outreach — $2,500 · OtherInternational Gospel OutreachMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP — $2,000 · Other+14 more — $7,235 · Other+14 moreBIG OAK RANCH INC — $38,800 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INCNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE — $600 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $250 · EducationMISSIONARY TECH TEAM — $1,000 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIES — $600 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250 · ReligionINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA — $200 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $100 · ReligionAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $250 · HealthALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $400 · Civil RightsLeadership Institute — $400 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$43,235Human Services$38,800Education$4,850Religion$2,150Health$550Civil Rights$400Public Benefit$400Recreation & Sports$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $38,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Law Association — $1,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONARY TECH TEAM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE-A-LIFE INC — $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Mosow 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
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    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 34 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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