· Private foundation
Helen Jones Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION | $5,356,250 |
| WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $1,150,000 |
| UNITED WAY - LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY | $1,000,000 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - OFFICE OF THE PROVOST | $585,000 |
| RANCHING HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $550,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - GRADUATE SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| SCIENCE SPECTRUM | $235,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $192,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $186,200 |
| MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $144,135 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $127,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH | $115,000 |
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, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 8 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- LELUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +223% · 98% of their budget
- MOMUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +25% · 55% of their budget
- RHRanching Heritage Association4× · 2021–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +135% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS - TORNADO MEMORIAL GATEWAY PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $200k
- SDSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -94%
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM - INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2020 · $86k
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.
Trade Organization of Real Estate Professionals. Promoting the common interest of the Real Estate industry in Lubbock and the surrounding area. To help promote improvement of business conditions in this area.
To financially contribute to the lubbock library system and promoting its many programs.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
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.
The junior league of lubbock is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
Promoting agricultural education, leadership and agricultural entrepreneurship in the youth of lubbock county, texas; encouraging and recognizing the achievement of youth in agriculture and livestock management; encouraging youth academic…
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…
Planning, designing, funding, constructing and ultimately management of a new facility to be known as the lubbock county expo center.
The ywca of lubbock legacy fund inc. is dedicated to meeting the needs of the ywca of lubbock in supporting the community through its mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for…
Promotion of local commerce
Seek funding through private contributions, sponsorships and apply for local, state and national grants to 1) support increased participation in amateur sporting events, 2) assist and support educational opportunities and conferences in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Scottish Rite Learning Center 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.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 91 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 ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BALLET LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MOONLIGHT MUSICALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUBBOCK CHORALE ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PLAINVIEW ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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: Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · South Plains Foundation · Civic Lubbock Inc · HDS Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · Kuykendall 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 Helen Jones Foundation 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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