Texas · Nonprofit
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,694,409 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($3,077,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Momentous Institute does
Mission
Momentous Institute is dedicated to innovative mental health services, education, and professional training to strengthen children, families, and communities, and envisions a world of emotionally thriving people reaching their full potential. Founded in 1920 by salesmanship club of dallas, Momentous Institute has been a pioneer in strengths- and systems-based youth mental health treatment, today providing nearly 13,000 sessions of psychotherapy and parent education to over 2,500 children and families each year. Since 1997, the organization has also operated a nationally recognized local elementary school with 248 students that integrates mental health concepts with rich academic instruction, leading to exceptional long-term student outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Momentous school- momentous school integrates mental health concepts with rich academic instruction, leading to exceptional long-term student outcomes. It provides high-quality pre-kindergarten, children ages 3 years old through fifth grade education focused on building strong emotional and academic skills for long-term success. Momentous school's culture of creating a positive student-centered environment based on safe relationships remained at the core of all practices throughout the school year. Teachers continued to train on understanding the impact of trauma on the brain learning how to recognize symptoms of trauma and using strategies to help children self-regulate and build persistence.
$5,600,356 spentof which $201,734 as grants$374,910 earned by the program42% of program spendingMental health services- provides strengths- and systems-based youth mental health treatment, today providing nearly 13,000 sessions of psychotherapy and parent education to over 2,500 children and families each year. High-quality, trauma informed care is at the core of everything we do at Momentous Institute. Each year, our team continued to provide holistic, low barrier mental health services focused on systemic care, relationships, and strength-based interventions. We intentionally offer these services in-person or virtually, through a variety of treatment approaches including individual, family, group, or play.
$5,446,970 spentof which $40,027 as grants$70,206 earned by the program41% of program spendingProfessional training - Momentous Institute's professional training programs provide tangible, proven strategies for implementing mental health informed learning to enhance the mental health of a child or adults working with children through virtual, on-demand and in-person training sessions. Our team continuously strives to champion mental health informed social emotional learning by directly serving adult professionals who work to improve the academic success and overall well-being of children typically beyond our reach. Over the past 15 years, Momentous Institute has strategically invested in training, coaching, and consultation of over 3,000 professionals each year. Our expert team provides evidence-based content, training, and consultation to promote youth mental health in both school and out-of-school settings, while also supporting the mental well-being of adults, including parents, caregivers, educators, youth professionals, and workplace leaders. Our flagship product, the mental health-informed changemakers social emotional learning curriculum for pre-k through 5th grade, is nationally acclaimed, fully accredited and used in 34 states across the u.s., as well as in…
$1,394,505 spent$109,077 earned by the program11% of program spendingResearch - Momentous Institute is passionate about investing in research to directly reach more children with trauma-informed strategies that strengthen social emotional health. Each year, Momentous Institute follows momentous school students' long-term trajectories and tracks improvements in the social emotional health of therapy clients and parent education participants. The scholarship program provides financial and mentoring support for former momentous school students and mental health services clients as they pursue post-secondary education. Program results and outcomes are reported and analyzed annually with the program development and evaluation committee and then with the board of directors.
$807,497 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,249,328.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $15M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2022 1% · 2023 12% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jessica Gomez Psyd Lp
Executive director
Board chair
Marcus E Knight
Chairman (thru 10/16/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $503k → $2.2M.
19 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $85M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Salesmanship Club of Dallas). These are real filings, and they are not money MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 57% · 2019 62% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Salesmanship Club of Dallas · exempt
- Salesmanship Club Foundation · exempt
- Scf Charitable Properties Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE?
- MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,694,409 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($3,077,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $18,694,409 in grants to MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE?
- THE DALLAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,077,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 119 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing