· Private foundation
The Moran Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST HELENA SCHOOL OF HOBBS INC | $30,000 |
| ST HELENA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST HELENA SCHOOL OF HOBBS INC | $3,000 |
| ST HELENA SCHOOL OF HOBBS INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF LEA COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +56%
- EJEMMAUS JOURNEY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +100%
- CUCreighton University5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIXone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTYone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
- DODIOCESE OF PHOENIXone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
St. john fisher university fosters a collaborative and inclusive community where students grow into purposeful leaders through a transformational educational experience rooted in our catholic heritage and guided by our basilian tradition.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE FOUNDATION FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY LAW ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds CAMP ST CHARLES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HOBBS NM ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC ↗
- Who funds ST GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: JF Maddox Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Moran Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Moran Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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