Huston-Tillotson, which has 1,056 students enrolled for the fall semester, is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ. It received its first donation from Moody Foundation in 1968.
Moody Foundation, not related to the Moody Bible Society or Moody Radio, pledged in 2023 to donate $1 billion for Texas education by 2035. The private foundation based in Galveston was founded in 1942 to invest in charitable projects. Past recipients of its funding include Christian higher education institutions and churches, along with nonprofits focused on the arts, health and social services.
In 2019, it donated $100 million to Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, to fund the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. In 2021, it gave $5 million to Abilene Christian University in Texas for renovations to its Moody Coliseum.
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