Moses Feldman Family Foundation

Moses Feldman Family Foundation

The Moses Feldman Family Foundation was formed in 2004 by Moses "Moe" Feldman and his wife Susan as the successor to The Feldman Foundation. The wealth originates with Moe's grandfather, Jacob Feldman, whose estate established a marital trust that underpins the family's assets. Moe Feldman's own operating career included leadership roles at AeroMed, Inc. and the board of Lincoln Electric, placing the fortune's roots squarely in the industrial-metals sector. The foundation is based in Bethesda, Maryland and governed by an all-family board: Susan Feldman and the couple's children — Elizabeth, Susannah, David, and Julie — serve as trustees. The foundation maintains an investment portfolio that preserves capital for its grant-making while actively deploying into private markets. The strategy spans buyout funds, expansion and late-stage venture, fund-of-funds vehicles, mezzanine debt, natural resources, secondaries, and direct co-investments. Real-asset holdings include commercial-property interests through Davis Investment Ventures Fund V in Boston, residential exposure via Belveron Partners and Bridge Partners Fund II, and the foundation's own office at 4801 Hampden Lane in Bethesda. Its grant-making focuses on three pillars: environment, human rights, and peace and security — a mandate reflected in sustained support for organizations including Clean Energy Works, Seeds of Peace, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the Jerusalem Foundation, Bank Street College of Education, and the Riverside Park Conservancy. The foundation operates with an estimated corpus of $59 million. Moe Feldman is a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society, a network for high-level philanthropic donors, and the foundation participates in Exponent Philanthropy through its relationship with advisory firm Intentional Philanthropy. The internal team size is not publicly disclosed, but operations center on the single Bethesda location with a governance model that keeps all investment and grant decisions within the immediate family. The foundation's architecture is notable for collapsing investment and philanthropic functions under a single family-controlled governance structure — all five family trustees sit on the board, and the portfolio's hybrid-mandate strategy (combining private-fund commitments, direct co-investments, and real-asset holdings) is managed without a separately branded family-office entity. This integrated model means allocation decisions flow directly from the Feldmans' combined investment and philanthropic judgment, rather than through an outsourced OCIO or a segregated investment committee of independent trustees.