· Private foundation
Moss Adamson Spalding Charities
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| First Baptist - City Lights | $2,500 |
| Stamford Carnegie Library | $2,500 |
| Texas Trails Council BSA | $2,500 |
| Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame | $1,500 |
| Basketball Smiles | $1,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $1,000 |
| Christian Homes | $1,000 |
| Abilene Woman's Club | $1,000 |
| Love and Care Ministries | $1,000 |
| First Central Presbyterian | $1,000 |
| Faithworks of Abilene | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 49 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 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 QUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEARLAND YOUTH LACROSSE ↗
- Who funds Abilene Womans Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Women and Children ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Moss Adamson Spalding Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moss Adamson Spalding Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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