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Covenant Health System

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$12MEducation$235kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$87kCommunity Improvement$60kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$25k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,712,777
Median grant
1
States reached
$199M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$1,712,777
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%SOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $35k → 15%HALE CENTER SENIOR CITIZENS ASSC INC: $10k → 22%SOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%LUBBOCK FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $37k → 17%LUBBOCK FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $30k → 17%LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER: $54k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 6 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$10M
$492k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9.6M · revenue -36%
  • OH
    Oregon Health & Science University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $450k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK TEXAS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k

Funded once

  • LA
    LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • LE
    LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +66%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.

Health
2
Hospice of Lubbock Inc

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Human Services
3
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

Human Services
5
Lubbock Economic Development Alliance

To promote economic growth by creating high quality jobs, investing in new capital improvements, retaining and expanding existing businesses and enhancing lubbock's quality of life.

Community Improvement
6
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Foundation
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7
Family Legal Services of the South Plains

The family legal services of the south plains works to provide low income clients of the south plains with first-rate legal assistance, advocacy, and quality counsel in matters of family and elder law at free and/or reduced cost.

Crime & Legal
8
Lubbock Impact Inc

To empower the working poor by providing enrichment programs and resources to meet physical, spiritual, and emotional needs. this provides the hope and tools to break generational poverty and build a stronger future. lubbock impact comes…

Human Services
9
Covenant Health System

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
10
Covenant Medical Center

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
11
Lubbock Christian School

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…

Education
12
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Area United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hale Center Senior Citizens Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $9,566,900 · HealthST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,712,777 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONOregon Health & Science University: $449,590 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK TEXAS: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $75,000 · OtherLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $68,000 · OtherCARPENTER'S CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherLUBBOCK FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER INC DBA FAMILY GUIDANCE & OUTREACH CENTER: $67,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60,000 · Human ServicesLUBBOCK DREAM CENTER: $53,625 · Human ServicesBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesHALE CENTER SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$11,279,677Other$727,590Human Services$210,625Philanthropy$100,000Arts & Culture$100,000Education$50,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $9,566,900 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,712,777 over 1y, 29% of budgetLUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $68,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLUBBOCK FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER INC DBA FAMILY GUIDANCE & OUTREACH CENTER: $67,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUBBOCK DREAM CENTER: $53,625 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALE CENTER SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budget
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.

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.

Garrison Family Found…Community Foundation …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Garrison Family FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Garrison Family Foundation · Community Foundation of West Texas · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Covenant Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Covenant Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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