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Helen Jones Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$52MEducation$21MPhilanthropy$3.3MCivil Rights$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.5MHealth$1.2MAnimals$1.1MCommunity Improvement$843kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $291k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+8 grants · $10M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$256M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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$250,000
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - GRADUATE SCHOOL$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $8k → 17%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $5k → 17%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200k → 22%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $25k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84M · 59 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
23

Total granted

$84M
$923k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

56%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LE
    LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +143% · 98% of their budget
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +25% · 55% of their budget
  • RH
    Ranching Heritage Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +135% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS - TORNADO MEMORIAL GATEWAY PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • SD
    SILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -94%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM - INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $86k
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
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Foundation
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2
Lubbock Association of Realtors Inc

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.

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3
Friends of the Lubbock Public Library Inc

To financially contribute to the lubbock library system and promoting its many programs.

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4
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
5
Civic Lubbock Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Junior League of Lubbock Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Lubbock County Junior Livestock Association

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…

Youth Development
8
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
9
Lubbock County Expo Center Inc

Planning, designing, funding, constructing and ultimately management of a new facility to be known as the lubbock county expo center.

Education
10
Ywca of Lubbock Legacy Fund Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
Lockhart Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of local commerce

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12
Lubbock Experience Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
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 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 91 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: $11,040,997 · OtherSOUTH PLAINS COLLEGETEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS: $10,473,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTSTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $5,565,500 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYUNITED WAY - LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY: $2,488,909 · OtherRanching Heritage Association: $2,447,994 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $2,440,000 · Other+54 more: $12,694,601 · Other+54 moreLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $24,586,250 · Arts & CultureLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS …MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $5,407,100 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIO…+13 more: $2,750,152 · Arts & Culture+13 moreLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $2,141,430 · EducationWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,460,000 · EducationLITERACY LUBBOCK: $156,000 · EducationCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,038,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $96,150 · Health+2 more: $41,841 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $500,000 · PhilanthropyLUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC: $309,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $33,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $673,300 · Community ImprovementSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PLAINVIEW: $200,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $200,000 · Human Services+1 more: $12,785 · Human Services
Other$47,151,001Arts & Culture$32,743,502Education$3,757,430Health$1,176,491Philanthropy$848,500Community Improvement$773,300Human Services$412,785

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $24,586,250 over 7y, 98% of budgetMUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $5,407,100 over 7y, 55% of budgetRanching Heritage Association: $2,447,994 over 4y, 63% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $2,440,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $2,141,430 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,460,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,038,500 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $673,300 over 8y, 30% of budgetLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $672,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetSCIENCE SPECTRUM INC: $565,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBALLET LUBBOCK: $353,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC: $309,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLUBBOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $240,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetLUBBOCK MOONLIGHT MUSICALS INC: $225,425 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE LUBBOCK CHORALE: $200,000 over 8y, 36% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PLAINVIEW: $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $200,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $197,900 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $188,650 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES ADAMS STUDIO PROJECT: $174,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetLITERACY LUBBOCK: $156,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetLEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER: $122,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $101,074 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $96,462 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $96,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $87,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSilent Wings Museum Foundation Inc: $77,350 over 8y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION: $74,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetLUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $70,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $58,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC: $53,180 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE VOLUNT: $50,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetLubbock Community Theatre: $37,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $33,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $31,765 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $26,841 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE LEARNING CENTER OF WEST TEXAS: $26,600 over 1y, 20% of budgetTEXAS SOUTH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT: $22,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLUBBOCK HERITAGE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $12,785 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $11,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOGALLALA COMMONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLUBBOCK SYMPHONY GUILD INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSUPPORTERS OF THE FINE ARTS: $6,500 over 1y, 46% 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.

  • 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PLAINVIEW ↗
  • Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISE HOPKINS UNDERWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗

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 IncCommunity Foundation …Diekemper Family Foun…Texas Instruments Fou…Welborn-Payne Endowme…South Plains Foundati…Civic Lubbock IncHDS FoundationGarrison Family Found…Rea Charitable TrustC and a McDonald Fami…Kuykendall Foundation
Ch Foundation IncTX83× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helen Jones Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Jones Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Helen Jones Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Helen Jones Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 91 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-PF 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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