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The Mary Moody Northen Endowment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $586k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $493k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROADWAY MONUMENT LLC | $1,422,093 |
| MOUNTAIN LAKE LLC | $1,060,116 |
| CENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES | $694,000 |
| ROSENBERG LIBRARY | $118,750 |
| GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $100,096 |
| GALVESTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59,420 |
| GILES COUNTY | $55,000 |
| GALVESTON COUNTY RECOVERY FUND | $50,000 |
| GILES COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| O'CONNELL COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $47,500 |
| GALVESTON'S OWN FARMERS MARKET | $27,500 |
| GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES | $27,500 |
| ODYSSEY ACADEMY | $27,200 |
| TEXAS A & M FOUNDATION | $25,394 |
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 (FY18–24, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
64 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 21 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- CFCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +44% · 84% of their budget
- GCGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $581k · revenue +83% · 36% of their budget
- SVST VINCENTS HOUSE4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- GCGILES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $300k
- GCGILES COUNTY NATURE TOURISMone grant, 2021 · $230k
- BGBUFFALO GAP IMPROVEMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +41%
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 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…
Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.
Gulf Coast Center provides accessible efficient and quality services to support the independent and healthy living of those we serve. Every day our counselors therapists psychiatrists case workers peers support and administrative staff…
To provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley
The Mission of the Galveston Clubhouse is the support of chronically mentally ill individuals in Galveston County by providing or facilitating the following: 1) Psychological and vocational rehabilitation services; 2) Pre-vocational…
The purpose of GSCA as set out in its By-Laws includes creation of sustainable and holistic neighborhood revitalization through education [and] integrated social services that provide opportunity for [Galveston] residents to succeed.…
Texas Coastal Exchange promotes the protection and restoration of coastal habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Galveston County and the most unlike its peers is Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies. 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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 133 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 CENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds O CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO GAP IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDING GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
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: Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · The Moody Foundation · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · United Way of Galveston Inc White · Sasser Family Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Rider Family Fund · John P McGovern Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable 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 The Mary Moody Northen Endowment 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.
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