· Private foundation
Moss Adamson Spalding Charities
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Serenity Foundation of Texas | $25,000 |
| Culver Stockton College | $10,000 |
| Nat'l Center Children's Ill Lit | $9,000 |
| Pioneer Drive Baptist Church | $5,000 |
| Stamford Carnegie Library | $2,500 |
| First Baptist - City Lights | $2,500 |
| Texas Trails Council BSA | $2,500 |
| Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame | $1,500 |
| Paramount | $1,000 |
| Basketball Smiles | $1,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $1,000 |
| Love and Care Ministries | $1,000 |
| Christian Homes | $1,000 |
| First Central Presbyterian | $1,000 |
| Abilene Woman's Club | $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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $414k · revenue +132%
- SFSerenity Foundation of Texas4× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +11%
- GMGRACE MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF ABILENE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -18%
- AHABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +110%
- AIAltrusa International of Abileneone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
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
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The mission of Abilene Chamber of Commerce is to promote the economy and quality of life in Abilene, Texas by providing services to local businesses, educational opportunities, promoting Abilene as a travel destination, and promoting…
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,…
Our mission is to preserve historic buildings and promote historic preservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 49 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 Serenity Foundation of Texas ↗
- Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Abilene Womans Club ↗
- Who funds BASKETBALL SMILES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Trails Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds RAISING YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds NOROC INC ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Center for Contemporary Arts ↗
- Who funds Abilene Womans Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds PEARLAND YOUTH LACROSSE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
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: Greathouse Foundation · Barber Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Claude & Mae Moss Charities · Shelton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · The Hodges 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 Moss Adamson Spalding 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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