Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$1,432,337,894

Total expenses

$145,013,039

Contributions and grants received

$1,209,711,666

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$121,331,301

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$4,075,782,775

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$121,331,301

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$121,331,301

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

• University of Texas at Austin Dept of Intercollegiate Athletics

  $30,000,000

  Austin, TX

  Assistance supporting the mission & purpose of University of Texas at Austin.

• Rice University

  $10,000,000

  Houston, TX

  Assistance with The Moody Center for Student Life and Opportunity

• Southern Methodist University

  $10,000,000

  Dallas, TX

  Assistance with funding for Moody School of Graduate & Advanced Studies.

• Moody Gardens

  $7,000,000

  Galveston, TX

  Assitance with Attraction and Site Improvements - Moody Gardens

• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  $5,000,000

  Galveston, TX

  General support

• Children's Medical Center Foundation

  $3,313,577

  Dallas, TX

  General support

• Lubbock County Expo Center

  $2,000,000

  Lubbock, TX

  Assistance with Lubbock County Expo Center Arena

• Galveston Island Day SchoolMoody Early Childhood Center

  $1,966,666

  Galveston, TX

  Assistance with Moody Early Childhood Center-the Next Steps

• Charles Butt Foundation

  $1,863,500

  San Antonio, TX

  Assistance with the TXRL Program

• Abilene Christian University

  $1,800,000

  Abilene, TX

  Assistance completing second and final phase of renovations to Moody Coliseum

The 10 largest to organizations. The API serves every grant row.

6 grants to individuals, $1,013,742 in total. Counted where the foundation named the recipient as a person or marked it as an individual, as filed. Who received them, where, and why are not published.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2024

Filed

11 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202523159349100442

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