· Private foundation
Claude & Mae Moss Charities
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,300 |
| Paramount Theatre | $500 |
| Christian Homes | $500 |
| West Shore Community Library | $500 |
| Nat'l Ctr Childrens' Illustrated Li | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Center for Contemporary Arts | $225 |
| Abilene Woman's Club | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +209%
- NCNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +52%
- SFSerenity Foundation of Texas2× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- LBLaura Bush Institute for Womens' Heone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TTTexas Trails Council Incone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -10%
- FBFood Bank of West Central Texasgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +47%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
The mission of the Arts Council is to nurture and strengthen the artistic, cultural and educational quality of the community.
Public arts funding
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Our mission is to manage and promote the Historic Paramount Theatre to benefit the citizens of Abilene, Texas and the surrounding area.
To engage and enrich our community by providing outstanding arts programming and cultural activities that inspire creativity and participation.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
To provide leadership to support, promote and cultivate the arts in Wichita Falls and the surrounding area. To strengthen and elevate arts and culture including, but not limited to, visual and performing arts, literature, culinary arts,…
Operating orchestra
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat ↗
- Who funds Serenity Foundation of Texas ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Abilene Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST SHORE COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Taylor County History Center ↗
- Who funds Texas Trails Council Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of West Central Texas ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Opera Association ↗
- Who funds NOROC INC ↗
- Who funds Zambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund ↗
- Who funds Center for Contemporary Arts ↗
- Who funds Cancer Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds The Strength for Life Foundation ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Barber Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Greathouse Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Jm Parker Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Claude & Mae Moss Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claude & Mae Moss Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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