· Private foundation
C and a McDonald Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| HIGHPOINT VILLAGE | $100,000 |
| LUBBOCK ROOTS HISTORIC ARTS COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION JAZZ STUDIES | $50,000 |
| KLZK LUBBOCK PUBLIC MEDIA | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| LUBBOCK CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SPARKS PRESCH & ABA THERAPY | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE SPECTRUM | $5,000 |
| TEXAS GIRLS & BOYS RANCH | $5,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $4,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue 0%
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue -16%
- ELEARLY LEARNING CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- LALUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -8%
- HNHOPE NETWORK MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue -31%
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization cultivates loyalty, tradition, service, and lifelong relationships. supporting and assisting in the development and increasing of the facilities of texas tech university through (1) encourage & establish scholarships, (2)…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Lubbock christian school is dedicated to providing a quality environment in which each student will grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and man. lcs strives for excellence spiritually, personally, and professionally among…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Educational conferences/seminars
The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To preserve the history of, tell the story of, and instill pride in american agriculture and values.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Girls and Boys Ranch and the most unlike its peers is High Point Village Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Windmill Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Ch Foundation Inc · South Plains Foundation · Terry & Kelly Crofoot Foundation · HDS Foundation · Community Foundation of West Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · SS Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Civic Lubbock Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization C and a McDonald Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.