· Public charity
Civic Lubbock Inc
To foster and promote educational, cultural and entertainment programs, to include the visual and performing arts, for the citizens of lubbock and the surrounding area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $553,241 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $816,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $263,143 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC | $71,035 |
| LUBBOCK MOONLIGHT MUSICALS INC | $61,430 |
| THE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $51,915 |
| LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $51,604 |
| LUBBOCK LIVE FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS | $42,968 |
| LUBBOCK COMMUNITY THEATER INC | $36,530 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $32,761 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $32,212 |
| LUBBOCK CIVIC BALLET DBA BALLET LUBBOCK | $27,200 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC | $20,000 |
| BALLET FOLKLORICO AZTLAN DE LUBBOCK | $16,096 |
| YOUTH ARTIST GUILD LUBBOCK | $12,210 |
| FLATLAND PRODUCTIONSINC | $11,920 |
| WEST TEXAS WATERCOLOR SOCIETY | $11,280 |
| FLATLANDS DANCE THEATER | $10,773 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 93% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Civic Lubbock Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LALUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $611k · revenue +68%
- LSLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +102%
- TLTHE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- 1H1859 HISTORIC HOTELS LTD DBA OVERTON HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $9k
- OIOUTSIDE IN FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 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.
Lubbock public media is a nonprofit corporation and licensed as a non- commericial educational station whose mission is to provide classical music to lubbock area audiences on the air and online to promote live musice, the performing of…
Our mission is to spark a love of the arts, history, and culture in order to celebrate and enhance our creative community. from our hometown charm to our urban spirit, we are the art and soul of longview.
The Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts is committed to presenting professional entertainment for the enlightenment and cultural growth of people living in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana and to better the quality…
To foster and promote educational, cultural and entertainment programs, to include the visual and performing arts, for the citizens of lubbock and the surrounding area.
Planning, designing, funding, constructing and ultimately management of a new facility to be known as the lubbock county expo center.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
The organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.
Bringing the world of performing arts to Boerne, Texas by presenting concerts that feature internationally acclaimed artists, educating through student outreach programs, and enriching the quality of life
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Lubbock and the most unlike its peers is The Robert Burns Society of West Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MOONLIGHT MUSICALS INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds Lubbock Community Theatre ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Flatland Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK LIVE FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EACH ONE REACH ONE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT BURNS SOCIETY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds American Windmill Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LUBBOCK CHORALE ↗
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 · Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Rea Charitable Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · Market Lubbock Economic Development Corporation · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Sessions Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Civic Lubbock Inc 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.
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