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The Pj Moran Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$1.0MEducation$627kScience & Tech$50kFood & Nutrition$30kReligion$29kInternational$25kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$55,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON$20,000
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER$10,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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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 Pj Moran 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. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Pj Moran Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 17 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -1435% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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16

Total granted

$1.7M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-1435%

Still filing today

71%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalPublic BenefitArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    5× · 2020–2024 · $279k · revenue +69%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +36%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • NI
    NANOVIC INSTITUTE - NOTRE DAME
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
2
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
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The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
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Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
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St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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Charleston Southern University

Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…

Education
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Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
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Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of St Thomas and the most unlike its peers is Lone Star Flight Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $1,010,000 · OtherM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTERStrake Jesuit College Prep — $120,000 · OtherStrake Jesuit College Prep+23 more — $214,789 · Other+23 moreUniversity of St Thomas — $278,575 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI …University of Notre Dame du Lac — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationWorld Affairs Council of Greater Houston — $25,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $20,000 · Human ServicesDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE — $9,000 · Public BenefitLone Star Flight Museum — $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,344,789Education$423,575International$25,000Human Services$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Public Benefit$9,000Arts & Culture$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $278,575 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Greater Houston — $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRATTVILLE CHRISTIAN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE — $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAY AREA CHORUS — $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
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 University of St Thomas
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds World Affairs Council of Greater Houston
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL
  • Who funds PRATTVILLE CHRISTIAN
  • Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE
  • Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum
  • Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
  • Who funds THE BAY AREA CHORUS

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Pj Moran 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Florida Southern College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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