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Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church
The mission of the Endowment is to hold, administer and distribute funds exclusively to and in aid of the religious, charitable and educational purposes of Moody Methodist Church.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church’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 $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+13 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Galveston ISD | $8,100,000 |
| Galveston ISD | $2,250,000 |
| Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church | $1,550,000 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church | $1,320,485 |
| Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church | $1,025,125 |
| Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church | $700,000 |
| Moody Methodist Day School | $600,000 |
| Moody Methodist Day School | $550,000 |
| First Baptist Church Galveston | $375,000 |
| SMART Family Literacy Inc | $300,000 |
| St Vincent's House | $300,000 |
| Libbie's Place | $295,000 |
| Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church | $232,837 |
| Family Service Center of Galveston County | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 28 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- MMMOODY METHODIST DAY SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +41% · 71% of their budget
- GCGalveston College Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +324% · 93% of their budget
- LPLIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST4× · 2020–2024 · $974k · revenue +67% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- GHGALVESTON HOUSING PLUS INCone grant, 2023 · $494k
- GCGALVESTON COUNTY CLUBHOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $150k
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF THE PINESone grant, 2023 · $135k
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.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.
Providing support to vulnerable children by providing family-based care solutions alongside the local church.
Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The Councils mission is to enhance the quality of life of low-income families in Galveston, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria Counties by promoting self-sufficiency pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It also operates…
GHIRPs mission is to build a resilient diverse community by providing comprehensive representation and holistic legal services to immigrants in need.
Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Centers of Houston and the most unlike its peers is Project Graduation Inc Ball High School. 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 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
144 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. 144 of the 184 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 MOODY METHODIST DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ROOM LLC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Galveston County Texas ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HOUSING PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY CONTINUUM OF CARE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF GALVESTON INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NIA CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENTS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS CITY OF GALVESTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
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: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · The Moody Foundation · United Way of Galveston Inc White · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc
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 Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.