The Foundation focuses the majority of its funding on programs involving education, social services, children's needs, and community development.

[4] Since then, the Foundation has awarded over $1.5 billion and over 4,000 grants to organizations across the state that have educated, healed, nurtured and inspired generations of Texans.

[3][8] Moody Gardens is an educational & tourist complex located in the foundation's home city of Galveston, Texas.

The Transitional Learning Center (TLC) is a facility that specializes solely in post-acute brain injury rehabilitation.

It was started by the Foundation in 1982, in response to a brain injury suffered by a son of trustee Robert L. Moody.

Since then, the Foundation has awarded more than $15 million in scholarships to more than 5,000 Texas students to attend college via the Moody Scholars program.

Since early 2018, the Moody Foundation has awarded more than $28 million to local educational organizations aimed at increasing student success.

The bridge connects two buildings as part of the Moody College of Communication in University of Texas at Austin.