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Jf Charitable Endowment Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$55kCommunity Improvement$15kHealth$7kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RED RAIDER CLUB EXCELLENCE FUND$3,510
Individual grant recipient$1,700
COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATIONJOE ARRI$1,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATIONLITERARY LUBB$1,000
ALUMNI MEMBERSHIP FUND$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%LITERARY LUBBOCK: $1k → 15%WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $250 → 17%Lubbock Christian School: $1k → 15%YWCA: $2k → 17%LITERARY LUBBOCK: $1k → 15%South Plains Food Bank: $200 → 17%Lubbock Christian Schools: $500 → 15%VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK: $4k → 17%Lubbock Christian Schools: $500 → 15%Volunteer Center of Lubbock: $2k → 17%Lubbock Womens Club Historical Foundation: $450 → 17%VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK: $230 → 17%YWCA WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE: $2k → 17%Volunteer Center of Lubbock: $5k → 17%Volunteer Center of Lubbock: $4k → 17%Volunteer Center of Lubbock: $550 → 17%St Stephens Mision Outreach: $550 → 17%Joe Arrington Covenant Cancer: $2k → 17%Literary Lubbock TTU Press Event: $1k → 17%Community Foundation of West Texas: $1k → 17%COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATIONJOE ARRI: $1k → 17%GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: $250 → 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37k · 6 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$37k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+9%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • VC
    VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue -13%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIEN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • TR
    TTU red raider Club Scholarships
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • TT
    Texas Tech Foundation Excellence Fu
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • MO
    Museum of Texas Tech Universsity
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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

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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2
Lubbock Christian University Foundation

Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.

Education
3
Lubbock Christian University

Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.

Education
4
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

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

Health
5
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
6
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Foundation
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7
South Plains College Foundation

Secure and administer funds for student financial assistance in the form of scholarships and grants-in-aid and for grants and financial support that advances and enriches the educational program of south plains college, levelland, texas.

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8
Lubbock Area United Way Inc

Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.

Philanthropy
9
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
10
Junior League of Lubbock Foundation

The foundation was established to provide a permanent endowment fund or funds for the purpose of encouraging members of the public to make gifts to the junior league of lubbock, inc. and for providing a more secure and permanent means of…

Community Improvement
11
Texas State University Development Foundation

To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.

Education
12
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc; the most unlike its peers is Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIEN: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENTTU red raider Club Scholarships: $8,700 · OtherTTU red raider Club ScholarshipsTexas Tech Foundation Excellence Fu: $5,600 · OtherTexas Tech Foundation Excellence FuMuseum of Texas Tech Universsity: $5,000 · OtherMuseum of Texas Tech UniverssityTexas Tech University: $5,000 · OtherTexas Tech UniversityRed Raider Excellence Fund: $4,600 · OtherRed Raider Excellence FundRED RAIDER CLUB EXCELLENCE FUND: $3,510 · OtherRED RAIDER CLUB EXCELLENCE FUNDRED RAIDER CLUB EXCELLANCE FUND: $3,500 · OtherRED RAIDER CLUB EXCELLANCE FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherLaura Bush Institute for Womens: $2,500 · Other+11 more: $12,250 · Other+11 moreVOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $14,672 · Community ImprovementVOLUNTEER CENTER O…+1 more: $250 · Community ImprovementTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $250 · EducationLUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $450 · Arts & CultureSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $200 · Food & Nutrition
Other$63,660Community Improvement$14,922Education$6,250Health$3,000Philanthropy$1,000Arts & Culture$450Food & Nutrition$200

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 budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $14,672 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $450 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds LUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗

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.

Helen Jones Foundation IncTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Ch Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Jf Charitable Endowment Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jf Charitable Endowment Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 Jf Charitable Endowment Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Jf Charitable Endowment 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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