· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEXAS GIRLS & BOYS RANCH | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SPARKS PRESCH & ABA THERAPY | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE SPECTRUM | $5,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $4,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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."
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C and a McDonald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C and a McDonald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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