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The Mary Moody Northen Endowment at a glance

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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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.5MEducation$4.8MHuman Services$882kRecreation & Sports$855kEnvironment$464kHealth$324kFood & Nutrition$215kCommunity Improvement$189kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $586k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $493k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
$18,410
Median grant
2
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GILES COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND$50,000
GALVESTON COUNTY RECOVERY 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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $3k → 20%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $10k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $10k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $10k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $10k → 14%HOSPICE CARE TEAM: $10k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%LIBBIE'S PLACE: $11k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $9k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $8k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $250 → 14%ST VINCENTS HOUSE: $60k → 14%RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $45k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $45k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $28k → 14%ST VINCENTS HOUSE: $20k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $20k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $19k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $18k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $17k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%LIGHT HOUSE CHARITY TEAM: $8k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 64 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
48

Total granted

$16M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+39%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +44% · 84% of their budget
  • GC
    GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $581k · revenue +83% · 36% of their budget
  • SV
    ST VINCENTS HOUSE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • GC
    GILES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • GC
    GILES COUNTY NATURE TOURISM
    one grant, 2021 · $230k
  • BG
    BUFFALO GAP IMPROVEMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sea Star Base Galveston
Recreation & Sports
2
Galveston Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
3
Galveston County Community Action Council Inc

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…

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4
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
5
Center for Transportation and Commerce

Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.

Arts & Culture
6
The Gulf Coast Center

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…

Health
7
Galilee Community Development Corp

To provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley

Housing & Shelter
8
Galveston County Clubhouse Inc

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…

Health
9
Galveston Sustainable Communities Alliance

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.…

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10
Genetic Resource Association of Texas
Health
11
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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12
Texas Coastal Exchange

Texas Coastal Exchange promotes the protection and restoration of coastal habitats.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Galveston County; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 133 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,545,116 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROSENBERG LIBRARY: $2,191,035 · OtherROSENBERG LIBRARYCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES: $1,797,660 · OtherCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIESCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDI: $1,447,000 · OtherCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIBROADWAY MONUMENT LLC: $1,422,093 · OtherBROADWAY MONUMENT LLCTHE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $846,000 · Other+86 more: $2,509,702 · Other+86 moreGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $581,148 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $56,280 · Arts & CultureNIA CULTURAL CENTER: $34,380 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $26,330 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $39,730 · Arts & CultureST VINCENTS HOUSE: $145,185 · Human ServicesGALVESTON DIAPER BANK: $100,000 · Human ServicesGalveston Urban Ministries: $93,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $79,300 · Human ServicesCASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $45,000 · Human ServicesGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $17,600 · Human Services+5 more: $41,225 · Human ServicesO CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $121,500 · EducationMOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $60,300 · EducationGalveston College Foundation: $60,000 · EducationOdyssey 2020 Academy Inc: $37,200 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $25,394 · EducationUPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $24,410 · Education+2 more: $8,500 · EducationBUFFALO GAP IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $120,000 · Community ImprovementGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $80,900 · Community ImprovementVision Galveston: $38,327 · Community ImprovementBuild Galveston: $20,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC: $10,150 · Community Improvement+1 more: $7,000 · Community ImprovementSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 · HealthALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $35,000 · HealthTransitional Learning Center at Galveston: $25,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $20,000 · HealthAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston: $15,000 · HealthGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $92,750 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $62,380 · EnvironmentLone Star Coastal Alliance: $9,020 · Environment
Other$16,758,606Arts & Culture$737,868Human Services$521,310Education$337,304Community Improvement$276,377Health$175,000Environment$164,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR 20TH CENTURY TEXAS STUDIES: $1,797,660 over 3y, 84% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $846,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $581,148 over 8y, 36% of budgetST VINCENTS HOUSE: $145,185 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetO CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $121,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGALVESTON DIAPER BANK: $100,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetGalveston Urban Ministries: $93,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $92,750 over 4y, 25% of budgetGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $80,900 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $79,300 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSEEDING GALVESTON: $72,755 over 4y, 34% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $67,285 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $62,380 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $60,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGalveston College Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $56,280 over 4y, 0.4% of budget4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSUNSHINE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVision Galveston: $38,327 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOdyssey 2020 Academy Inc: $37,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budget1894 INC: $37,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNIA CULTURAL CENTER: $34,380 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $26,330 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $25,394 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransitional Learning Center at Galveston: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $24,410 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $21,631 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBuild Galveston: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXSAR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGALVESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $19,730 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE GRANT FAMILY FUND: $19,216 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetRAINBOW CONNECTION GALVESTON: $18,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF GALVESTON INC: $18,300 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $17,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Conservation Alliance: $17,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGALVESTON REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $14,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $12,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetLIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST: $11,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 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 SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR 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.

Ippolito Charitable F…Harris & Eliza Kempne…The Moody FoundationDr Leon Bromberg Char…Permanent Endowment F…United Way of Galvest…Sasser Family Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…The Cynthia & George …The Rider Family FundJohn P McGovern Found…Albert & Ethel Herzst…
Ippolito Charitable Foundation of GalvestonTX74.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mary Moody Northen Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Moody Northen Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Mary Moody Northen Endowment?

Find your warmest path to The Mary Moody Northen Endowment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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