· Private foundation
Claude & Mae Moss Charities
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of Claude & Mae Moss Charities’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,300 |
| West Shore Community Library | $500 |
| Nat'l Ctr Childrens' Illustrated Li | $500 |
| Paramount Theatre | $500 |
| Christian Homes | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Center for Contemporary Arts | $225 |
| Abilene Woman's Club | $100 |
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 (FY17–19, $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 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.
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
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
- 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 +71%
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.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Claude & Mae Moss Charities 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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