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Community Foundation of West Texas

The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS enhances the lives of all residents of the texas south plains region, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
94
Itemized grants FY2024
134
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$14,892
Largest grant, FY2024
$248,410
Organizations funded a year
93 to 134
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$77M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Community Foundation of West Texas funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $804k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving93$2.3M11%
FY2023134$2.7M31%
FY2022121$2.3M21%
FY2021111$2.5M19%
FY2020122$4.9M31%
FY201996$3.4M23%
FY2018100$1.7M34%
FY201793$1.3Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.0MHuman Services$3.8MHealth$2.7MRecreation & Sports$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$1.6MReligion$1.0MHousing & Shelter$965kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lubbock Experience Inc$3,503,840683%
Huntingtons Disease Society of America Inc$787,9086n/a
Lubbock Dream Center$528,652718%
South Plains Food Bank Inc$457,12781%
Catholic Charities Inc$453,66089%
Lubbock Open Door$423,08183%
Lubbock Arts Alliance Inc$390,862810%
Agriculture Heritage Museum Inc$376,43887%
The Salvation Army$331,5808n/a
Casa of the South Plains Inc$330,77386%
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All grantees of Community Foundation of West Texas by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lubbock Experience Inc$3,503,840683%
Huntingtons Disease Society of America Inc$787,9086n/a
Lubbock Dream Center$528,652718%
South Plains Food Bank Inc$457,12781%
Catholic Charities Inc$453,66089%
Lubbock Open Door$423,08183%
Lubbock Arts Alliance Inc$390,862810%
Agriculture Heritage Museum Inc$376,43887%
The Salvation Army$331,5808n/a
Casa of the South Plains Inc$330,77386%
Women's Protective Services$323,35682%
Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc$321,90083%
High Point Village Inc$316,66886%
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas$295,00021%
Foothills Celebrations$283,2951n/a
Covenant Health System Foundation$261,42962%
City of Shallowater$260,2003n/a
A Place to Call Home$248,410144%
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$234,68380%
Lubbock Impact Inc$232,537710%
The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts$232,01085%
Lubbock Area United Way Inc$230,62981%
Friends of the Lubbock Public Library Inc$220,220814%
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch$214,99281%
Crossview Christian Camp & Retreat$209,649768%
Refuge Services Inc$158,33587%
Young Women's Christian Association of Lubbock$149,52340%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Southwest Inc$145,91083%
Ballet Lubbock$141,87981%
Lubbock Christian School$140,91861%
Umc Foundation$140,80932%
Hospice of Lubbock Inc$140,29580%
Alstrom Angels$132,41366%
Grace Campus$126,576717%
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$121,72080%
Science Spectrum Inc$117,17783%
Saint Benedict's Chapel Inc$115,999714%
Breedlove Foods Inc$115,82281%
Plainview Community Concert Association Inc$114,0006n/a
Family Promise of Lubbock Inc$108,655516%
Restoration Ministries of West Texas$107,399473%
Kpa Ministries Inc$107,31934%
Inside Out Foundation$106,897611%
Lubbock Community Theatre$106,191712%
Lubbock Childrens Health Clinic$105,00081%
Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains$102,68782%
Llano Estacado Silver Star Board$101,1688n/a
Abernathy United Church$100,0001n/a
Texas Methodist Foundation$100,0001n/a
Early Learning Centers of Lubbock Inc$96,61071%
Lubbock Boys' & Girls' Club Inc$95,56128%
Lubbock Church on the Rock Incorporated$94,4903n/a
Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc$93,85655%
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc$92,42880%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock Inc$92,405811%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$92,38480%
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc$90,88571%
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department$90,000419%
Ranching Heritage Association$87,33052%
Lubbock Habitat for Humanity Inc$85,67284%
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$83,95180%
Lubbock Entertainment and Performing Arts Association$79,28370%
New West Contemporary Art Museum Plainview Inc$77,8286n/a
Lakeridge United Methodist Church$75,1033n/a
East Lubbock Art House$73,569422%
Coe College$73,36440%
Texas Tech University$71,4057n/a
All Saints Episcopal School of Lubbock Inc$70,9728n/a
Phi Beta Kappa Society$64,7818n/a
South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Inc$64,46058%
Slaton Education Foundation Inc$63,702117%
Communities in Schools of the South Plains Inc$63,06460%
Post Animal Refuge Center$62,025722%
American Cancer Society Inc$60,47530%
Morris Safe House Foundation$59,091610%
New Mexico Junior College Foundation$58,76532%
St Elizabeth University Parish$56,8092n/a
American Heart Association Inc$55,04030%
American Windmill Museum Inc$54,894813%
Young Men's Christian Association of Plainview$53,00034%
Lldc Lubbock Learning Differnce Center Inc$52,35443%
Bill's Backpacks$52,020521%
Paws Pet Adoption of Plainview$50,447617%
Garza County Trailblazers Inc$50,00083%
Cable Natural History Museum Inc$48,91143%
Northwoods Humane Society Inc$48,91142%
Slaton Railroad Heritage Association Inc$48,174535%
Flatlands Dance Theater$47,8247n/a
Unpack Incorporated$45,656312%
Guadalupe Parkway Neighborhood Centers Inc$45,13552%
Volunteer Services Council for Lubbock State School$42,926416%
Spring Creek Ministries Inc$41,673315%
Casa of El Paso Inc$41,53351%
Youth Orchestras of Lubbock$40,961440%
Kingdom Come Ministries Inc$40,45046%
Pregnancy Resource Centers of Central Oregon$40,00015%
Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services$39,40060%
Pets Low Cost Spay & Neuter$38,61940%
Rescued Animals-Second Chance Inc$37,54355%
Bailey County Senior Citizens Assoc$37,051214%
Panhandle Children's Foundation$37,00028%
Lubbock Moonlight Musicals Inc$36,58945%
South Plains Food 2 Kids Inc$35,9601n/a
Home for Aged Masons Dba Texas Masonic Retirement Center$33,32760%
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc$32,92940%
W J Mangold Memorial Hospital Foundation$32,55248%
Haven Animal Care Inc$30,07838%
The Commemorative Air Force$30,00020%
Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc$30,00050%
First Image$30,00011%
Ncf Charitable Trust$30,0002n/a
Hope House of Plainview Inc$29,5732n/a
Methodist Children's Home$28,92750%
Shelbys Bridge$27,50044%
Ubiquitous Labs Tx$27,1502n/a
Community Recovery Center$27,000412%
The Scottish Rite Learning Center of West Texas$26,92754%
Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council$26,030214%
Wayland Baptist University$25,53330%
The Fields Edge$25,00011%
College Hill Elementary Parent Teacher Association$25,0002n/a
Saving Grace Rescue Lbk$25,00057%
Lubbock Heritage Society$24,679312%
Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation$24,36035%
The Parenting Cottage$23,27031%
West Texas Food Bank$23,25030%
Love the Hub Inc$23,0171n/a
The Somehow Here Again Foundation$23,0001n/a
YMCA Plainview$22,8002n/a
Family Service Association of Lubbock Texas Inc$22,55924%
City of Sundown Library$22,3501n/a
FLOYD COUNTY FRIENDS Inc$22,0001n/a
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center$21,74134%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc$21,30630%
Texas Architectural Foundation$21,20035%
Remember Our Heroes$20,4731n/a
Bridges to Life$20,00021%
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida$20,00011%
Catholic Charities Family & Community Services$20,0001n/a
Wee Care Child Care Center Inc$20,00011%
Towards Employment Inc$20,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc$20,00011%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh$20,00010%
Catholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio$20,00012%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Inc$20,00010%
Hunger Plus Inc$19,3402n/a
Boy Scouts of America$18,77330%
Lubbock Rape Crisis Center$18,55921%
Panhandle Community Services$18,00010%
Catholic Foundation of the South Plains$17,9102n/a
Kats Alley Cats$17,35025%
Lubbock Aquarium$17,085346%
Slaton Senior Citizens Association$16,97827%
Post Economic Development Corp$16,75032%
One Voice Home$16,67931%
Camp Summit Inc$16,58520%
Dickens County Historical Commission$16,5793n/a
B-Hive Inc$16,1552n/a
Christian Service Center of Abilene$15,25013%
Legal Aid of Northwest Texas$15,00020%
Methodist Hospital Plainview$15,00020%
Joseph Thomas Foundation$15,00027%
Bienvenido USA$15,00011%
Race Track Chaplaincy of America Inc$15,00031%
Levelland Wallace Theater$14,80824%
Stonebridge Fellowship Food Pantry$14,5002n/a
Adolescent Support Network$14,0001n/a
Family Legal Services of the South Plains$13,73811%
Wrench It Forward$13,72123%
Los Hermanos Familia$13,57625%
National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration$13,54527%
Hope Community of Shalom$13,5292n/a
Presbyterian Home for Children$13,31810%
Southcrest Baptist Church$13,2432n/a
Levelland Isd Foundation for Excellence$12,8002n/a
Team Luke Hope for Minds$12,50021%
Childrens Grief Center of El Paso$12,50023%
Dusty Puddles Dachshund Rescue Inc$12,40419%
Literacy Lubbock$12,34423%
The Christian Relief Fund$12,13020%
Plainview Downtown Restoration Inc$12,1002n/a
St Joseph Catholic Church$11,2011n/a
Hub City Outreach Center$11,03912%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$11,00020%
El Paso Council of the Blind$11,0001n/a
St Johns United Methodist Church Inc$10,9241n/a
Texas Engineering Foundation$10,50022%
Community Partners of Lubbock$10,328216%
Wesley Biblical Seminary$10,16620%
Ringtail Ranch Lemur Rescue$10,05028%
Pregnancy Care Center of Grants Pass$10,00011%
Hope Pregnancy Clinic$10,00011%
Second Chance Dog Rescue$10,00014%
Central Plains Center for Mental Health Mental Retardation$10,0002n/a
Rock Family Church$10,0001n/a
Pregnancy Care Centers Inc$10,00013%
1st Way of Eugene Inc$10,000112%
Maverick Boys & Girls Club of Amarillo Inc$10,00011%
The Navigators$10,0001n/a
Focus on the Family$10,0001n/a
Planview Civic Music Assoc Inc$10,000160%
Pacific Pregnancy Clinic$10,00012%
Pregnancy Alternatives Center Dba Obria Medical Clinics Oregon$10,00011%
The Pregnancy Center$10,00012%
The Mac Davis Museum and Academy of Songwriting Inc$10,0001n/a
Cochran County Senior Citizens Assn$10,00014%
The Whit Program Inc$10,000110%
Pregnancy Hope Center$10,00014%
Lubbock Cooper Isd$9,8751n/a
American Cancer Society$9,7501n/a
Reclaimed 43$9,4001n/a
American Diabetes Association$9,00010%
Edge - a Company of Fine Artists$9,0001n/a
Grey Edges$8,7441n/a
Don Harrington Discovery Center Foundation Inc$8,60810%
Lubbock County Drug Court Support Foundation$8,2471n/a
Operation Pawprints Inc$8,0001n/a
Plainview Independent School District$8,0001n/a
West Texas Watercolor Society$7,9651n/a
Mercy Retreat Center$7,6291n/a
East Lubbock Resident Owned Business Initiative$7,5001n/a
Amarillo United Citizens Forum$7,5001n/a
Le'Lands' Heart Sanctuary$7,5001n/a
Empower Camps of Texas$7,4821n/a
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc$7,42110%
Lchd Foundation$7,19219%
Friends of Legacy Play Village Inc$6,8651n/a
Managed Care Center for Addiction$6,5101n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul$6,5001n/a
Texas South Plains Honor Flight$6,47213%
Moving Waters$6,42515%
Help Me See Inc$6,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc$6,0001n/a
Lubbock Home Ministries$6,0001n/a
Lubbock Regional Mhmr Center$6,0001n/a
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock Texas$6,0001n/a
Plainview Cemetery Association$6,00012%
Monterey Church of Christ$6,0001n/a
Saint Francis Community Services Inc$5,9421n/a
Weekend Snack Sack Program$5,8101n/a
Plainview Christian Academyinc$5,40011%
Girl Scouts of the Texas Oklahoma Plains - Lubbock$5,2551n/a
Friends of McAlister Park$5,2011n/a
Susie's Closet$5,19818%
Downtown Women's Center Inc$5,15010%
Driskill Halfway House Inc$5,00014%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Austin Street Church of Christ Food Pantry$5,0001n/a
Plainview Community Chest Inc Formerly Plainview Area United Way$5,00012%
Easy R Equine Rescue$5,00016%
Cornerstone Assistance Network Inc$5,00010%
Sudan Baseball and Softball Youth Association Inc$5,00018%
Outpost Repertory Theatre$5,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$5,00010%
Tfi Family Services Inc$5,00010%
March of Dimes Inc$5,00010%
Square Mile Community Development$5,00015%
The Bridge of Lubbock Inc$5,00016%
Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center$5,00013%
Milagros Foundation$5,00013%
Tenaciously Teal Incorporated$5,00011%
ELLIS COUNTY COALITION FOR HEALTH OPTIONS INC dba HOPE HEALTH$5,00010%
Found Mission$5,00017%
Frisco Family Services Center$5,00010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation of West Texas supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 190 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLubbock Experience Inc: $3,503,840 over 6y, 83% of budgetLubbock Dream Center: $528,652 over 7y, 18% of budgetSouth Plains Food Bank Inc: $457,127 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $453,660 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetLubbock Open Door: $423,081 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetLubbock Arts Alliance Inc: $390,862 over 8y, 10% of budgetAgriculture Heritage Museum Inc: $376,438 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCasa of the South Plains Inc: $330,773 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetWomen's Protective Services: $323,356 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLubbock Meals on Wheels Inc: $321,900 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHigh Point Village Inc: $316,668 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetMeadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas: $295,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCovenant Health System Foundation: $261,429 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetA Place to Call Home: $248,410 over 1y, 44% of budgetTexas Tech Foundation Inc: $234,683 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLubbock Impact Inc: $232,537 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetThe Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts: $232,010 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetLubbock Area United Way Inc: $230,629 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Lubbock Public Library Inc: $220,220 over 8y, 14% of budgetTexas Girls and Boys Ranch: $214,992 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCrossview Christian Camp & Retreat: $209,649 over 7y, 68% of budgetRefuge Services Inc: $158,335 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Lubbock: $149,523 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Southwest Inc: $145,910 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetBallet Lubbock: $141,879 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLubbock Christian School: $140,918 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUmc Foundation: $140,809 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHospice of Lubbock Inc: $140,295 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAlstrom Angels: $132,413 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetGrace Campus: $126,576 over 7y, 17% of budgetBuckner Children & Family Services Inc: $121,720 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetScience Spectrum Inc: $117,177 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSaint Benedict's Chapel Inc: $115,999 over 7y, 14% of budgetBreedlove Foods Inc: $115,822 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Lubbock Inc: $108,655 over 5y, 16% of budgetRestoration Ministries of West Texas: $107,399 over 4y, 73% of budgetKpa Ministries Inc: $107,319 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetInside Out Foundation: $106,897 over 6y, 11% of budgetLubbock Community Theatre: $106,191 over 7y, 12% of budgetLubbock Childrens Health Clinic: $105,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetChildren's Advocacy Center of the South Plains: $102,687 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetEarly Learning Centers of Lubbock Inc: $96,610 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLubbock Boys' & Girls' Club Inc: $95,561 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetVolunteer Center of Lubbock Inc: $93,856 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCommunity Health Center of Lubbock Inc: $92,428 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock Inc: $92,405 over 8y, 11% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $92,384 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc: $90,885 over 7y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 190.

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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.

Ch Foundation IncTX88.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Lubbock Area United Way Inc · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Kuykendall Foundation · Parkhill Foundation · Ershel Franklin Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Community Foundation of West Texas

How much does Community Foundation of West Texas give?
Community Foundation of West Texas reported 94 itemized grants totaling $2,363,912, out of $3,481,495 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 134 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation of West Texas fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (18%), Health (13%).
Who are Community Foundation of West Texas's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lubbock Experience Inc ($3.5M), Huntingtons Disease Society of America Inc ($788k), Lubbock Dream Center ($529k).
Does Community Foundation of West Texas fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of West Texas?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ch Foundation Inc, Diekemper Family Foundation Inc, Helen Jones Foundation Inc.
Where is Community Foundation of West Texas based?
Community Foundation of West Texas is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 286 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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