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The Walter W Mosher Jr Foundation at a glance

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The Walter W Mosher Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$197kHuman Services$137kEducation$81kFood & Nutrition$50kEmployment$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,010
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETTY FORD CENTER$10,000
VISION TO LEARN$4,010
CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$4,010
NEW HORIZONS$4,010
HELP OF OJAI$4,010
OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$4,010
HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES FOUNDATION$4,010
THE JONATHAN FOUNDATION$4,010
TIERRA DEL SOL FOUNDATION$4,010
COLORADO LIONS FOUNDATION$4,010
VALLEY FAMILY CENTER$4,010
THE PARKER TASK FORCE FOOD BANK$4,010
SAN FERNANDO ADVISORY COUNCIL FOUNDATION$4,010
THREE SQUARES$4,010
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LA$4,010
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELP OF OJAI: $6k → 10%HELP OF OJAI: $4k → 10%HELP OF OJAI: $4k → 10%HELP OF OJAI: $3k → 10%HELP OF OJAI: $3k → 10%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $4k → 14%HELP OF OJAI: $3k → 10%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $4k → 14%HELP OF OJAI: $3k → 10%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%HELP OF OJAI: $3k → 10%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 14%MEND: $4k → 14%MEND: $4k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%MEND: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 22 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
1

Total granted

$550k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+111%

Still filing today

55%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HO
    HELP OF OJAI INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +114%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +78%
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • GF
    GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +111%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
2
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) is dedicated to providing access to quality comprehensive health care to men, women and children with an emphasis on farm worker families and the agricultural community.

Health
3
Vista Community Clinic

The mission of Vista Community Clinic is to advance community health and hope by providing access to premier health services and education for those who need it most.

Health
4
Clinica Sierra Vista

The mission of clinica sierra vista is to provide quality health care to the underserved populations of kern and fresno counties. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
5
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
6
East Valley Community Health Center Inc

East valley community health center's mission is to provide access to excellent health care while engaging and empowering our patients, employees and partners to improve their well-being and health of our communities.

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7
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
8
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
10
Valley Health Team Inc

Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…

Health
11
Sutter Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Development Institute; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Lions Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETTY FORD CENTER: $79,000 · OtherBETTY FORD CENTERTHE PARKER TASK FORCE FOOD BANK: $23,985 · OtherTHE PARKER TASK FORCE FOOD BANKHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES FOUNDATION: $23,485 · OtherHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES FOUNDATIONNEW HORIZONS: $23,485 · OtherNEW HORIZONSONEGENERATION: $23,485 · OtherONEGENERATIONTHE JONATHAN FOUNDATION: $18,485 · OtherTHE JONATHAN FOUNDATIONSAN FERNANDO ADVISORY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $18,485 · OtherSAN FERNANDO ADVISORY COUNCIL FOUNDATIONLAPD FOUNDATION: $17,485 · OtherLAPD FOUNDATIONCASA COUNCIL OF MOJAVE: $16,305 · OtherCASA COUNCIL OF MOJAVEPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,485 · OtherPIERCE COLLEGE: $9,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,985 · HealthChildren's Hospi…CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $23,985 · HealthCHILD DEVELOPMEN…VISION TO LEARN: $23,985 · HealthVISION TO LEARNPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthHELP OF OJAI INC: $26,985 · Human ServicesHELP OF OJAI IN…MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $23,485 · Human ServicesMEND - Meet Eac…Valley Family Center: $23,485 · Human ServicesValley Family C…WOODBURY UNIVERSITY: $59,000 · EducationWOODBURY UNI…THREE SQUARE: $25,985 · Food & NutritionTierra del Sol Foundation: $23,485 · EmploymentOJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN: $19,485 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO LIONS FOUNDATION: $7,680 · Community Improvement
Other$266,685Health$79,955Human Services$73,955Education$59,000Food & Nutrition$25,985Employment$23,485Philanthropy$19,485Community Improvement$7,680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODBURY UNIVERSITY: $59,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELP OF OJAI INC: $26,985 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,985 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $25,985 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $23,985 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $23,985 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTierra del Sol Foundation: $23,485 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONEGENERATION: $23,485 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $23,485 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetValley Family Center: $23,485 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetOJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN: $19,485 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO LIONS FOUNDATION: $7,680 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WOODBURY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds Tierra del Sol Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
  • Who funds Valley Family Center ↗
  • Who funds OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO LIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
  • Who funds GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Green FoundationWeingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Ahmanson FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Walter W Mosher Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter W Mosher Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    5report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Walter W Mosher Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Walter W Mosher Jr 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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