California · Nonprofit
Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)
Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,067,362 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($262,340). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $113k
What Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) does
Mission
To empower girls from underserved areas of los angeles county to become the next generation of college-educated women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The moste a-g requirements were developed to ensure a standardized system for program implementation and scholar participation in moste's college access program. Modeled after a to g subject requirements to enter both the unversity of california or the california state university system,the moste a-g requirements standardize the subjects that all moste scholars must "study" prior to completing the moste middle school program and the more moste high school program. As a compliment to the a-g requirements for all california high school students, which focus on math, english, science, history, etc. The subjects for the moste a-g requirements include college preparation, professional development, cultural experience, community service, community empowerment, introspection, and responsibility.
$334,611 spent100% of program spendingThe moste scholarship program includes two types of scholarships. The incentive scholarship is awarded to culminating eighth grade scholars, based on their participation in the moste a-g college access program,their scholarship essay and application, and letters of recommendation. The purpose of the scholarship is to incentivize continued success through high school. Likewise, the achievement scholarship is awarded to graduating seniors for their achievements in high school and the more moste program. In june 2021 moste awarded 8 incentive scholarships to rising 9th graders, which will be held in trust until the scholars attend college. Moste awarded 9 achievement scholarships to rising college freshman.
The moste mentoring program connects moste and more moste scholars with a college-educated, professional female in the greater los angeles community. Moste mentors are available as a resource, role model,and friend to scholars throughout their path to college. In addition, moste mentors participate in the a-g college access program activities and events throughout the year. As of june 2021, moste had 94 students and 63 mentors participating.
Other Program Services
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $334,611.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $387k to $185k (−52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 31% · 2023 49% · 2024 6% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $139k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)’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
Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 31% · 2020 34% · 2021 38% · 2022 38% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
46% of Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)'s grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is 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.
Against its field
Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)'s funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE): 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)?
- Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,067,362 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($262,340). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,067,362 in grants to Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE), 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE)?
- THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $262,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Motivating Our Students Through Experien EXPERIENCE (MOSTE) 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing