· Private foundation
The Moody Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k176 grants · $17M
- $250k+68 grants · $101M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Texas at Austin Dept of Intercollegiate Athletics | $30,000,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $10,000,000 |
| Rice University | $10,000,000 |
| Moody Gardens | $7,000,000 |
| University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | $5,000,000 |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $3,313,577 |
| Lubbock County Expo Center | $2,000,000 |
| Galveston Island Day SchoolMoody Early Childhood Center | $1,966,666 |
| Charles Butt Foundation | $1,863,500 |
| Abilene Christian University | $1,800,000 |
| Galveston Independent School District | $1,349,791 |
| Waco Family Medicine Foundation | $1,250,000 |
| Breakthrough Central Texas | $1,000,000 |
| Avance Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $24.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Moody Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
325 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2024, 173 since wound down; 184 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73M 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
Southern Methodist University6× · 2019–2024 · $100M · revenue +37%- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University4× · 2021–2024 · $60M · revenue +28%
- GCGalveston College Foundation2× · 2019–2022 · $6.5M · revenue +238% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
- UAUT at AustinDept of Intercollegiate Athleticsone grant, 2021 · $6.5M
- UBUT - Blanton Museum of Artone grant, 2019 · $4.0M
- TGTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $4.0M · revenue -13%
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
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.
See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Galveston Artist Residency. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
733 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. 733 of the 1,021 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOODY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK COUNTY EXPO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds Moody Medical Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Encore Park Dallas ↗
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: Meadows Foundation Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Addy 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 Moody Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- 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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