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GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION

GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,202 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($553,898). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.7B
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$988k
Grants received
$11.4B
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($452M) Expenses 100 ($353M) Net assets 100 ($6.8B)2018 Revenue 117 ($530M) Expenses 98 ($347M) Net assets 94 ($6.4B)2019 Revenue 93 ($420M) Expenses 106 ($372M) Net assets 104 ($7.1B)2020 Revenue 117 ($528M) Expenses 96 ($340M) Net assets 123 ($8.4B)2021 Revenue 178 ($805M) Expenses 116 ($409M) Net assets 140 ($9.5B)2022 Revenue 145 ($654M) Expenses 129 ($456M) Net assets 121 ($8.2B)2023 Revenue 82 ($372M) Expenses 138 ($486M) Net assets 128 ($8.7B)2024 Revenue 589 ($2.7B) Expenses 137 ($483M) Net assets 168 ($11.4B)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (589)Expenses (137)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
Ocean Uniteunclassified
$434k
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

56% of GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $434k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION?
GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,202 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($553,898). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $988,202 in grants to GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION?
NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $553,898 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing