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The Moody Family Foundation at a glance

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The Moody Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$152kEnvironment$120kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$15kEducation$6kHuman Services$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$830k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,000
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$7,500
ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION$7,500
CHICAGO RUN$6,000
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$5,000
ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY$5,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$4,000
HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$3,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$2,000
NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION$2,000
OPEN BOOKS$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $15k → 16%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $4k → 14%FLORIDA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10k → 10%APALACHICOLA RIVERKEEPER: $15k → 18%FLORIDA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $15k → 19%THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CHICAGO RUN: $6k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $10k → 11%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $5k → 16%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $4k → 14%APALACHICOLA BAY AND RIVER KEEPERS: $10k → 10%APALACHICOLA RIVERKEEPER: $15k → 18%THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 16%CHICAGO RUN: $6k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $10k → 11%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FOUNDATION: $4k → 16%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%APALACHICOLA RIVERKEEPER: $15k → 18%CHICAGO RUN: $3k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $6k → 11%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $2k → 16%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%CHICAGO RUN: $2k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $6k → 11%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $2k → 16%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $10k → 14%OPEN BOOKS: $2k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $5k → 11%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $10k → 14%OPEN BOOKS: $2k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $5k → 11%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $10k → 14%OPEN BOOKS: $2k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $5k → 11%POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $8k → 14%ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $4k → 14%ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $8k → 14%ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $4k → 14%ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $7k → 14%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $2k → 14%POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $7k → 14%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IN
PA
CA
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 13 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$340k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-11%

Still filing today

77%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +43%
  • PR
    Potomac Riverkeeper Network
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +55%
  • FW
    Florida Wildlife Federation
    2× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • AB
    APALACHICOLA BAY AND RIVER KEEPERS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BO
    BACK ON MY FEET
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • SU
    STAND UP TO CANCER
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Running Rivers

Our mission is to conserve and restore native fish ecosystems by educating and inspiring a diverse community of recreationists to engage in conversation through responsible and thoughtful recreation, informed advocacy and philanthropy, and…

Human Services
3
Runners for Public Lands

We empower runners to protect public lands, engage in climate action, and expand access to nature for all. Runners are motivated to be involved in their local communities to protect cherished landscapes and expand access to nature.…

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Nature Forward

Nature Forward inspires residents of the DC area to appreciate, understand, and protect their natural environment through outdoor experiences, education and advocacy, and creates a larger and more diverse community of people who treasure…

Environment
6
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
7
Conservation Nation

To strengthen the conservation movement by funding and supporting conservationists from all communities, while educating and inspiring the next generation of wildlife champions.

Animals
8
Indiana Wildlife Federation

The Indiana Wildlife Federation (IWF) is a statewide, nonprofit conservation organization, with the mission to promote the conservation, sound management, and sustainable use of Indianas wildlife and wildlife habitat through education,…

Animals
9
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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10
Arizona Wildlife Federation

Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…

Animals
11
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc

Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.

Environment
12
Environmental Law Foundation

Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Parks Conservation Association; the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $24,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATIONTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONAPALACHICOLA BAY AND RIVER KEEPERS: $10,000 · OtherAPALACHICOLA BAY AND RIVER KEEPERSNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $47,375 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INCAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $28,350 · EnvironmentAlice Ferguson Foundation IncPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $28,350 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverkeeper NetworkNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,200 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIO…+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentDefenders of Wildlife: $42,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeFlorida Wildlife Federation: $25,000 · AnimalsFlorida Wildlife Fede…Chicago Run: $17,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyOPEN BOOKS LTD: $5,850 · EducationBACK ON MY FEET: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$141,000Environment$120,275Animals$67,000Philanthropy$17,500Education$5,850Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $47,375 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $28,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $28,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Federation: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChicago Run: $17,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $5,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
  • Who funds Florida Wildlife Federation ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Run ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
  • Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
  • Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Moody Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Moody Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Moody Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Moody Family Foundation 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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