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MOODY GARDENS INC

MOODY GARDENS INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,445,452 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($7,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$66M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$7.4M
Net assets
$56M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Moody Gardens Inc does

Programs

  1. Construction/maintenance/renovation of facilities at moody gardens for the park board of trustees.

    $10,582,544 spent
  2. Operation of public facilities at moody gardens for the park board of trustees.

    $56,323,813 spent
  3. Operation of the golf course for the city of galveston

    $3,109,367 spent
  4. Construction/maintenance/renovation for the golf course for the city of galveston.

    $192,511 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54M) Expenses 100 ($69M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 189 ($101M) Expenses 94 ($65M) Net assets 318 ($53M)2019 Revenue 109 ($58M) Expenses 87 ($60M) Net assets 308 ($51M)2020 Revenue 69 ($37M) Expenses 62 ($43M) Net assets 274 ($46M)2021 Revenue 90 ($48M) Expenses 58 ($40M) Net assets 327 ($55M)2022 Revenue 111 ($60M) Expenses 78 ($54M) Net assets 327 ($55M)2023 Revenue 121 ($65M) Expenses 93 ($64M) Net assets 345 ($58M)2024 Revenue 116 ($62M) Expenses 97 ($67M) Net assets 350 ($58M)2025 Revenue 122 ($66M) Expenses 102 ($70M) Net assets 333 ($56M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (102)Net assets (333)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $35M to $79M (+125%).

$35M
$79M
$65M
$57M
$64M
$64M
$74M
$74M
$74M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

E Douglas Mcleod

Chairman/director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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Listed777677788
Joined·+0+1+1+1+1+1+2+1
No longer listed·01201111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $230k.

From the IRS filings of MOODY GARDENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

MOODY GARDENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.

“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.

Where its funders are

94% of MOODY GARDENS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

MD
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding MOODY GARDENS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.

Federal$27k
grants $0contracts $27k
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24
Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$27k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds MOODY GARDENS INC?
MOODY GARDENS INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,445,452 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($7,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOODY GARDENS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $7,445,452 in grants to MOODY GARDENS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOODY GARDENS INC?
The Moody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOODY GARDENS INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing