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Ardon & Iris Moore 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of ARDON & IRIS MOORE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $425,000 |
| FORT WORTH GARDEN CLUB | $100,000 |
| COOKS CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| TSCRA DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK | $45,730 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB | $10,000 |
| ONE SAFE PLACE | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| UT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EXCHANGE CLUB - GOODFELLOW FUND | $2,000 |
| TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| REEF RENEWAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CACORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC4× · 2017–2024 · $348k · revenue +22%
- SCSafe City Commission3× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +16%
- TATOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $47k · revenue +113%- PGPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FNDone grant, 2017 · $24k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…
The Foundation provides financial and other resources in support exclusively for Texas Agricultural Land Trust ("TALT"), a Texas tax exempt nonprofit corporation, classified as a 501(c)(3) organization.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Texas Women's Foundation invests in removing the barriers to women's economic security, stability, and success through targeted research and advocacy, intentional grant making and leadership programs.
The Texas Access to Justice Foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized as a funding source for legal services to indigent Texans in civil matters. The funding primarily generated by interest earned on lawyers' trust accounts (IOLTA)…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
To support the university of texas system
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Worth Garden Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Winn-Dunaway Family Foundation · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · R4 Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ardon & Iris Moore Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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