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HDS Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k82 grants · $305k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $477k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross South Plains Regional Chapter | $70,000 |
| Salvation Army | $50,000 |
| Sameritan's Purse | $35,000 |
| Shriner's Hospital for Children | $30,000 |
| Southwest Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Lubbock Christian University | $25,000 |
| LeTourneau University | $25,000 |
| Wayland Baptisl University | $25,000 |
| Duke Annual Fund | $20,000 |
| Lubbock Area United Way | $20,000 |
| Meels on Wheels Lubbock | $20,000 |
| Texas Tech Red Raider Club | $20,000 |
| Amarillo Area Foundation | $20,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc Chancellor's Council | $15,000 |
| Vernon College | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
107 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- LCLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +35%
- RMRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +55%
- NHNEW HOME SCHOOL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FBFirst Baptist Church - Lubbockone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
To provide homeless families with children the tools necessary to achieve long term financial, parental, and personal self-sufficiency through a comprehensive program of temporary housing, case management, and supportive services.
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
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.
The young women's christian association of lubbock is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
To provide victims of sexual assault in the lubbock county and surrounding area with free, confidential crisis advocacy, assistance, and support, and to promote public awareness of the realities of sexual victimization and strive toward…
Christian organization serving under-resourced families including single parents, refugees, and immigrants by providing spiritual and financial assistance.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gates Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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. 64 of the 163 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOME SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEGACY HOME FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CALEBS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S 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: Community Foundation of West Texas · Ch Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · South Plains Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Rc Johnson Jr Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Alliance Credit Union Foundation · Rushing Family Foundation
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 HDS 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.
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