· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Wayland Baptisl University | $25,000 |
| Southwest Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Lubbock Christian University | $25,000 |
| LeTourneau University | $25,000 |
| Meels on Wheels Lubbock | $20,000 |
| Lubbock Area United Way | $20,000 |
| Texas Tech Red Raider Club | $20,000 |
| Duke Annual Fund | $20,000 |
| Amarillo Area Foundation | $20,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc Chancellor's Council | $15,000 |
| New Home School Foundation | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 163 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 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 CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization HDS Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HDS Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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