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Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund

Dallas, TX · EIN 04-6487087. Reported 46 grants totalling $74,500 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$74,500granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
15%of grantees funded again the next year
$718,525assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $6,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
12 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
30 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Brandeis UniversityWaltham, MA$6,000112024
University of BuffaloBuffalo, NY$6,000112024
Clemson UniversityClemson, SC$5,000112024
Siena CollegeLoudonville, NY$5,000112024
SUNY PlattsburghPlattsburgh, NY$5,000432024
Clarkson UniversityPotsdam, NY$4,500422022
Vermont State UniversityCastleton, VT$4,500332024
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN$4,000112024
St Lawrence UniversityCanton, NY$3,000112023
SUNY New PaltzNew Paltz, NY$3,000212022
Albany College of Pharmacy & Health SciencesAlbany, NY$2,250112021
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC$2,250112021
Dartmouth UniversityHanover, NH$2,000112024
North Country Comm CollegeSaranac Lake, NY$2,000322023
SUNY AdirondackQueensbury, NY$2,000212021
Colorado Mesa UniversityGrand Junction, CO$1,500112023
Culinary Institute of AmericaHyde Park, NY$1,500112022
Husson University Hart Hall 228Bangor, ME$1,500112022
Lemoyne CollegeTiconderoga, NY$1,500112022
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury, VT$1,500112023
SUNY SchenectadySchenectady, NY$1,500112023
Nccc TiconderogaTiconderoga, NY$1,000112023
North Country Community CollegeSaranac Lake, NY$1,000112021
Northeastern UniversityBoston, MA$1,000112023
Springfield CollegeSpringfield, MA$1,000112022
University of WisconsinMadison, WI$1,000112021
Bryant UniversitySmithfield, RI$500112023
Coastal Carolina UniversityConway, SC$500112022
Penn State AlbonaUniversity Park, PA$500112022
Siena UniversityLoudonville, NY$500112023
SUNY CantonCanton, NY$500112023
SUNY Erie NorthWilliamsville, NY$500112022
SUNY GeneseoGeneseo, NY$500112023
SUNY PotsdamPotsdam, NY$500112021

4 of 34 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 15%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
17 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$12,500$1,000
202214$14,500$1,000
202314$14,500$750
20248$33,000$4,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 56% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$42K
Massachusetts
$8K
Vermont
$6K
South Carolina
$6K
Tennessee
$4K
District of Columbia
$2K
New Hampshire
$2K
Colorado
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsGazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-06289607 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Harvey H & Catherine Moses Education Fund's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 04-6487087 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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